#Lies Quotes

“Like oneWho having into truth, by telling of it,Made such a sinner of his memory,To credit his own lie.”

“Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words”

“In thy foul throat thou liest.”

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

“You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

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

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

“When my love swears that she is made of truth,I do believe her, though I know she lies.”

“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?”

“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”

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

“The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.”

“A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.”

“The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.”

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

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

“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.All that was said in Ireland is a lieBreed out of the contagion of the throng,Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”

“There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.”

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

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

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

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

“A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.”

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

“Men hate those to whom they have to lie.”

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”

“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 liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.”

“Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.”

“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.”

“Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.”

“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”

“In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.”

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

“It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.”

“Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.”

“Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.”

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

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

“TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.”

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

“There are two types of speakers: those thatare nervous and those that are liars.”

“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”

“An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.”

“A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.”

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

“My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.”

“The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.”

“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”