Lies Quotes - Page 8

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking-only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?
Maybe the lies are all that we've got
But aren't they beautiful?

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

You can lie but you can't re-write history. Even if you could, what would you say to those who lived it and helped you thru, some of the darkest periods of your life?

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time - forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. - ME

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.

Everything is fine, nobody is happy...