Top Lies Quotes

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.

I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.-Greg House

I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand design, you realize that there are no truths, only stories. In other words, the only tr...

I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we co...

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasu...

One of the greatest lies ever told to women is that it is only when they make up that they become beautiful

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividin...

Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie.

I believe in one truth is horror, truth puts you in the darkness and it's difficult to find way out, lies are the lightness you hear the stuff which you want to hear.

I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Very soon she'll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed eyes, aimless gest...

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?