“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
— Mark Twain“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
— George Washington“...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick”
— Jeanne Birdsall“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”
— Zoë Marriott“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
— John Keats“Ronan said, I'm always straight.Adam replied Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.”
— Maggie Stiefvater“Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.”
— T.F. Hodge“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken. ”
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”
— Gabrielle Zevin“When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.”
— Erik Pevernagie“Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.”
— Ellen DeGeneres“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
— Anonymous“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.”
— Stefan Molyneux“God loves you, but not enough to save you.”
— Ethel Cain“All is One in totality, and reality. Get it anyhow. Through science. Or spirituality.”
— Fakeer Ishavardas“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”
— Scott Westerfield“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
— Walter Scott“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
— Terry Pratchett“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
— Criss Jami“In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.”
— Kristin Cashore“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
— Ruta Sepetys“How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.”
— Jennifer Salaiz“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”
— Mikhail Bulgakov“Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.”
— Jean Rhys“As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.”
— Jessica Khoury“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
— René Descartes“Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
— Shannon L. Alder“Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.”
— Radiohead“I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.”
— Ana Monnar“Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.”
— Neil Gaiman“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
— Tim O'Brien“Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.”
— Mira Grant“It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.”
— Yeonmi Park“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”
— Christine Feehan“The road to power is forged with lies and lives,” Loch says. “I have no regrets.”
— S.G. Blaise“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.”
— Cassandra Clare“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”
— George R.R. Martin“Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.”
— Holly Black“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”
— Danielle Bernock“lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.”
— Giacomo Casanova“LET'S FACE IT...WE ALL HEAR BLOODY LIES, WE ALL SEE DECEPTION WITH OUR OWN EYES,WE ARE NEITHER DUMB NOR BLIND... WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO SPEAK OUR MINDS.”
— Mouloud Benzadi“You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.”
— John M. Barry“When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.”
— Kiran Desai“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.”
— Denis Diderot“Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.”
— Suzy Kassem“This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies”
— Friedrich Nietzsche“It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides