Quotes About Lies
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
Tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying,self-indulgence, truth
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
Tags: lies, lying, self-deception,truth
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
Tags: beauty, delusion, goodness,lies, self-deception, wisdom
So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Tags: attributed-no-source, lies,lying, misattributed-mark-twain,statistics, truth
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Tags: lies, logic, philosophy,religion, truth
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Tags: confession, excuses,honesty, lies, lying, truth
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THELITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOMERIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's thepoint—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)
Tags: belief, justice, lies, mercy,truth
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Tags: lies, paraphrased
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
Ally Carter, Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
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