Lies Quotes

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid." -Jo

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

Man is bound to lie about himself

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

With your face and your beautiful eyes and the coversations with the little white lies and the faded picture of a beautiful lie you carry me from your car up the stairs,and I broke down crying was she worth this mess? After everything and that little black dress.After everything i must confess...I need you <3'':) -Taylor Swift

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.