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Regarding the Forbidden Book:There comes a time in every civilization where the forces of goods and progressive thinking have to face the forces of ignorance, evil and tyranny.What becomes of the later generations depends on what is done there and then in that place at that time.Find out if you may have taken part when these two forces went head to head.Indifference is no longer an option.
— Claire Hamelin Manning
There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion...
— Virginia Alison
Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???After all it was a lie, you even "You said that this guy won't take you, but...
— Deyth Banger
And so it was said "tell me your lies and I will help you keep them"And by wisdom attained it was realized that this was not the way. And so it was said "tell me your lies and I will help you heal them in truth without repercussion or judgement; in understanding, compassion and forgiveness.
— L.J Vanier
Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
Friendship requires truth, and there is no truth in her.
— Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone
There is strong danger in a person who can create such powerful deceit they can no longer distinguish their own lies from the truth.
— Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone
When you study the wrongs you have committed before you study the wrongs done to you, you have no choice but to label yourself inherently evil, and be forced to dissociate emotionally to avoid the horrible pain in this lie.
— Daniel Mackler, Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment
Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember.
— Katie Klein, Cross My Heart
I don't really like lies. I prefer to tell the truth whenever possible. It's much easier to keep track of.
— Morgan Rhodes, A Book of Spirits and Thieves
Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
— Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything.
— Albert Camus, The Fall
The I you know isn’t me, you said, truthtelling liarMy roots are not my chainsAnd I to you:   Whose hands have grownthrough mine?   Owl-voiced I cried then:   Who?But yours was the one, the only eye assumedDid we turn each other into liars?holding hands with each others’ chains?
— Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
The truth can’t hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.
— Kenneth Eade, Beyond All Recognition
A Lie is something like the truth, but the truth is not like a Lie.
— Dan Raper
It is a fact that the USA corporate government routinely lies to its mass population.
— Steven Magee
I said once that lies have no rights against truth. I was wrong. In daily life, it's the truth that's disenfranchised. What fits the popular narrative, what makes an observer happy with the consistency of events, is what is believed.
— Adrián Lamo
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: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
— Jonathan Swift
I won't lie I still keep searching why people... I'm very curious what does it make them so safety to lie?
— Deyth Banger
When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.
— Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth,
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Your nature may carry deception and lies, but then it won’t stop me from loving you
— Alok Jagawat
He was right that I was afraid. But I didn’t think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.
— Amy Harmon, The Law of Moses
Life is all about lies. It's about what you can stomach.
— Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan
Misinformation and disinformation about ritual abuse and mind control trauma and psychotherapy to treat such trauma appear in both paper and electronic media, but are particularly abundant on the Internet on websites of individuals and organizations, bookseller reviews, blogs, newsletters, online encyclopedias, social networking sites, and e-group listservs.
— Ellen P. Lacter
Warns, lies, liars and mysteries everything in one place what more awesome than that???Better check out Blindspot!
— Deyth Banger
It's amazing how bad you can make the truth sound. As long as you keep it partially recognizable when you spit it out, a crowd will eat it up without even thinking about how hard you chewed on it first.
— Courtney Summers, All the Rage
In every reign there comes one night of greatest blackness, when a King must send away his court of flatterers and servants, and sit alone in the dark with the beast called truth.In the gloom of the grand hall, Slately could hear it breathe.Truth at court was treated as if it were a precious commodity. It was hoarded, coveted, bartered for. Certainly this analogy applied to lies; his courtiers accepted his lies as currency of the realm. He handed them lies in large denominations, and they returned him his change in small ones.Oh, but truth was something different. Something alive and immortal. By light of day it was only a little butterfly: pretty, elusive, easily crushed, and utterly unable to defend itself. Most nights, too, it slept harmlessly. One could wave it away for a very long time.But on the nights it did not sleep, neither did the King.
— Rob Balder, Erfworld: Love is a Battlefield
It's not the lies he tells, it's the seductive way in which he persuades you they are not true.
— Virginia Alison
Every person is a big mystery a thing build of secrets, gambles and lies. That's what's about to be a mankind.
— Deyth Banger
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, Salt to the Sea
And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.
— Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People
The denial of truth does not harm the Truth
—  it only harms that which denies the Truth.
People who say "no" right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying "no" but generally they stop and think about it first. And they add "sorry" or something like that. Maybe they come out with some questions of their own. It's human nature. They say, "Sorry, no, why, what happened?
— Lee Child, Persuader
The statement that 'abortions is a women's choice over her body' is a half-truth, because there are two heart+beats, not one.
— Teresa  Squitti
I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.
— Paul Murray, The Mark and the Void
She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies.
— Jo Victor, Romance by the Book
Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies. I mean that though, to take an instance, her atrocity stories have grown and grown until every kind of unpleasant story that has ever appeared in print has happened to her or her relations personally, she did have a bad shock initially and did see one, at least, of her relations killed. I think a lot of these displaced persons feel, perhaps justly, that their claim to our notice and sympathy lies in their atrocity value and so they exaggerate and invent.
— Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced
Why are we here? We're here to go!
— William S. Burroughs
Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.
— Ellen P. Lacter
The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.
— Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People
So, yes, I lied, And, believe me, I am so sorry. But I was so in love with you and I didn't know what to do about it and I didn't want to give you any reason not fall in love with me back
— Jessica Love
Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven......I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.
— Harold Brodkey
It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.
— Rod Duncan, Unseemly Science
One cannot properly drink without self-deception: the lips have to deny the liquor that just passed down the throat. It was surely for the relief of drunkards that the Lord God did not write upon the stone tablets the commandment: thou shalt not lie. The word has to deny the addiction. Among the tribe of alcoholics, lying is a badge of honor - the truth is first an indiscretion, later an affront, and finally a source of despair. If you truly drink, you have to announce to all and sundry that you do not drink; if you admit you drink, that means you do not truly drink. True all-out drinking has to be concealed; anyone who reveals it is giving in, confessing to helplessness, and all that remains for him is weeping, the gnashing of teeth, and the 12 step program.
— Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel
People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.
— Paul Murray, The Mark and the Void
My God, Judge, do men believe whatever lie they hear about an enemy?
— Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell
Never until the wounded came back from Bunker Hill had I realized the lengths of which a determined minority will go in order to achieve its ends. For the first time I understood one of the fundamentals of warfare: that armies cannot be raised by nations or parties unless the rage of the people is first kindled by lies and name-calling.
— Kenneth Roberts
You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!
— Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.
— Meg Cabot, Ninth Key
Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime had been committed with a knife at the end of 1982, in a Montevideo suburb. The accused, Alma Di Agosto, had confessed. She had been in jail more than a year, and was apparently condemned to rot there for the rest of her life. As is the custom, the police had raped and tortured her. After a month of continuous beatings they had extracted several confessions. Alma Di Agosto's confessions did not much resemble each other, as if she had committed the same murder in many different ways. Different people appeared in each confession, picturesque phantoms without names or addresses, because the electric cattle prod turns anyone into a prolific storyteller. Furthermore, the author demonstrated the agility of an Olympic athlete, the strength of a fairground Amazon, and the dexterity of a professional matador. But the most surprising was the wealth of detail: in each confession, the accused described with millimetric precision clothing, gestures, surroundings, positions, objects..... Alma Di Agosto was blind. Her neighbours, who knew and loved her, were convinced she was guilty: 'Why?' asked the lawyer. 'Because the papers say so.' 'But the papers lie,' said the lawyer. 'But the radio said so too,' explained the neighbours. 'And the TV!
— Eduardo Galeano
Promises are like silly jokes, told around a table when the food is good and no one has anything to lose by telling a lie or two - lies should have been a synonym for the word 'promise' in dictionaries, but only a few people knew it.
— Cameron Jace, Jar of Hearts
Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until things go the way that you want them to. Once you have the perfect marriage, your finances under control, a better job, or a nicer home - then you'll be happy. LIES, LIES, LIES. You will never be happy until you make the decision to do so.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, The Happy Lady
Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. André Chevalier
— Nikki Sex, Elizabeth's Bondage Boxed Set
I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Never be fooled that things are going well when the government seemingly gives out "goody bags" to the public. Those "goodies" are full of poison. They cannot simultaneously pass laws protecting one and then blast others through the media and have us think they are doing us a favor. They are lying psychopaths with an agenda. They may serve corporate masters but their still to blame and as long as the public goes along with them, they are also culpable. Only you can free yourself through freeing your mind.
— Dara Reidyr
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON
— Nelson M. Lubao
If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we’d never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.
— Richard E. Gropp, Bad Glass
How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn’t start for reasons we’re too devious to tell the truth about? It’s way too easy for governments to spend other people’s blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.
— Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming
I mean, yes, I did ask that. But that’s not the part that you should be caring about right now. You lied to me. Your involvement with weaponizing the Protogen project is fully exposed, and that question is like asking what color Tuesday was. It’s meaningless.
— James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
See?” my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. “We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?”And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of death came through the windows, crept under the door, hung in our carpets and curtains, and screamed of her lie.Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?These are the kinds of questions I ask myself now: in these dark, watery hours, when night and day are interchangeable. No. Not true.
— Lauren Oliver, Annabel
Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.
— Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming
With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
She isn’t acting hurt, she is acting angry,” Jared said, feeling frustrated himself.“I know, Jared, I know. Right now, she has a distorted view of herself and the world. The only way to effectively combat a lie is with the truth.
— Sarah Holman, Distorted Glass: A Snow Queen Story
...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.
— Carla Buckley
The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap.
— Ellen Hopkins, Tilt
I am good at keeping secrets. I am wrapped in them now, the way I am wrapped in lies, like my sweater, clinging tightly to my skin, even on the hottest of days.
— Jillian Cantor, Margot
My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.
— Jillian Cantor, Margot
Reporters are not scientific. They do not follow scientific methods. They write to sell, not to educate. The scientist is not concerned with what sells. He is concerned with the truth. He undertakes years of painstaking study to arrive at an understanding of intricate natural processes that most people could never presume to comprehend . You would do well to listen to science and ignore the nonsense that is printed in the newspapers. Because I can tell you right now - radium has nothing to do with what's ailing you.
— D.W. Gregory
It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.
— Dennis Adonis
A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.
— Dennis Adonis
The mirror ever lies.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
— French proverb
Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t tell them the full truth; maybe you tell them lies. But what is this world? A lie in itself.
— Savi Sharma, Everyone Has A Story
We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.
— Elisa Marie Hopkins, A Diamond in the Rough
Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.
— Gayle Forman, I Was Here
Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.
— Sreesha Divakaran, Wine, Fire, Satin, Dew
Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth’s charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?
— Colleen Chen
I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
— Orrin Woodward
The hard truth is that sometimes we need to lie to ourselves to continue to live
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
When you're way too real, fake people be like: "You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
A lie set down on paper in wet ink becomes the truth when dry.
— Manhattan (writer)
His eyebrows raised. "And you said demons didn't know love."Guido's laugh was harsh. "Ahh, but haven't you learned by now, bestia? Demons may not be able to lie, but we never tell the truth.
— Heather R. Blair, Phoenix Broken
The world is held together by lies. When I paint, I'm searching for the truth between them, but I'm no better at this than anyone else. Worse, probably.
— Gareth P. Jones, No True Echo
The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he ceases to respect both himself and others. Having ceased to respect everyone, he stops loving, and then, in the absence of love, in order to occupy and divert himself, he abandons himself to passions and the gratification of coarse pleasures until his vices bring him down to the level of bestiality, and all on account of his being constantly false both to himself and to others.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Now, it’s been a while since I had to tell this, so a few of the finer points may not connect as well as they should, but the story will bear the weight. That’s the beauty of the truth: put all together, it makes sense even if the parts might not.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Uncle Christmas
Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.
— Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
I can overlook the lie
—  what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.
Lies are for adults who are sad in their lives.
— Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups
He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.
— Fritz Leiber
I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.
— Kaede Lazares
Telling one lie begets another lie that begets another lie and before you know it that lie has grandkids, great grandkids and keeps growing. It’s like Lay’s Potato Chips, you can’t tell just one!
— Sanjo Jendayi, I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.
— Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder…If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me?
— Steve Maraboli
We have been having a Ménage à trois with the lies that others told us and the lies we tell ourselves for so long that we have convinced ourselves that it is normalcy. When we begin to read, hear or even see truth our minds reject it and our minds’ eye closes to what we view as temptation; as if we would be cheating on our trio so instead we cheat ourselves out of knowledge and growth.
— Sanjo Jendayi, I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy
It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.
— Leviak B. Kelly, The Leprechaun Delusion
Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Idea 721. Lies always have a purpose
—  but a truth has no such compulsion! The very purpose of lies is that they have to be told somewhere. Otherwise there arises no necessity to create them. The truth exists as it is
As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.
— Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish
Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.
— Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.
— Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There's 3 sides to every story. Time will tell who the real asshole is despite what you were told.
— April Mae Monterrosa
Hammer the lies! Nail the truth." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.
— Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea
I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.
— Elena Ferrante
A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.
— James Rozoff
The freedom of our people is more important!” Julie says fiercely. “We will never stop fighting, never stop working for what is right!”Jack just smiles at her. “That’s a nice lie to believe,” he says.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories
— Nourhan Mamdouh
I try not to look obvious as I wait for Mom’s answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other.“Oh, of course!” Mom exclaims, her voice trilling with laughter. “How could I have forgotten?”And now I know. Really know. This woman is not my mother. I don’t know who she is, but I know absolutely who she is not.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
Yes," Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. "Kylar thinks... Kylar fears that he's a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He's not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.
— Sunday Adelaja
It might've started as a lie, Faith, but it sure as hell didn't end as one. I might not have been real to you, and that's fine. But you have to know... you were real to me." His voice dropped so low I could barely hear him. "It was real to me. It's still real. The realest fucking thing I've ever felt.
— Julie   Johnson, Erasing Faith
Indeed, to this day, I think if you blame everything on the government, you're not just wrong, you're being reckless. It's as silly as blaming everything on the Freemasons, or the Illuminati, or insert-bad-guy-here. But I do believe that someone must ask the hard questions, especially of our elected officials as well as powerful men who become members of so-called secret societies. Remember: Governments don't lie. People lie. And if you want the real story, you need to find out more about those people.
— Brad Meltzer, History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.
— Holly Black, White Cat
How do you swallow the truth after a diet of lies?
— Gennifer Albin, Unraveled
The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.
— Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist
Companions were not allowed to lie. I don’t know why. I had tried a few times when I was young to get Benjamin to lie, and he never could. As we got older, I tried experiments, attempting to find a way for him to lie. Lies of omission, white lies, whoppers. Nothing. He couldn’t lie. My father told me that they were programmed that way. He seemed kind of proud about that. And now, I hoped, that would save my life.
— Erma I Talamante
A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Truth is for life
—  lies are for entertainment.
One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All workers have the right to a safe workplace.
— Steven Magee
The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass.
— James Patterson, Don't Blink
In India we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.
— Ashwin Sanghi
It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.
— David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.
— LeAnne Mechelle, Write like no one is reading 2
It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time — forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
It is more disgraceful for a king to tell lies than anyone else.
— Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander
The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.
— Jennifer Harrison, Write like no one is reading 2
Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.
— Danielle Bernock, Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That Heals
I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.
— Toni Maguire, Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal
There are three lies in life,” Sutherland said to his young companion, whose first night this was in the realm of homosexuality and whose introduction to it Sutherland had taken upon himself to supervise. “One, the check is in the mail. Two, I will not come in your mouth. And three, all Puerto Ricans have big cocks,” he said.
— Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
You know, everything's a sort of lie, and then you die.
— Arthur K. Flam
Never lie to the one who wants you safe.
— Damond Jiniya
It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. -- ME
— Tammy Wooster
A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Trauma is personal.
— Danielle Bernock, Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That Heals
Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.
— Gary   Hopkins
Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.
— Cynthia Bond, Ruby
There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.
— Gerry Spence, How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday
I love you. You're the only one." She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.
— Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
I believe there are two ways of concealing a secret: 1. Leave no trace of it. 2. Replace it with a lie.So which option did you choose, Mr.President?
— Sambhav Ratnakar, The Covert Perspective
I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a real paradox when put together with the "rugged individual" part of the Success Myth. How can I be a rugged individual, be my own man and conform at the same time? Conforming means "Don't make a wave", "Don't rock the boat". Be a nice gal or a good ol' boy. This means that we have to pretend a lot.  "We are taught to be nice and polite. We are taught that these behaviors (most often lies) are better than telling the truth. Our churches, schools, and politics are rampant with teaching dishonesty (saying things we don't mean and pretending to feel ways we don't feel). We smile when we feel sad; laugh nervously when dealing with grief; laugh at jokes we don't think are funny; tell people things to be polite that we surely don't mean." - Bradshaw On: The Family
— John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Nobody hates being lied to more than a liar.
— Steve Maraboli
Non-professionals can also misrepresent the personal characteristics, religious beliefs, and appearance, of these therapists, can name-call and otherwise mock them, and can attribute false agendas to them, such as assigning religious motives to secular therapists working with ritual abuse or mind control survivors.For example, there is little to prevent someone from claiming on his or her own website that a psychotherapist is a fundamentalist Christian zealot at war with Satan, when that therapist might be an atheist, Jew, Buddhist, etc., who places no stock in the existence of Satan. But such a claim, when spoken as if it is fact, accomplishes its intended purpose of maligning that therapist."- Common Forms of Misinformation and Tactics of Disinformation about Psychotherapy for Trauma Originating in Ritual Abuse and Mind Control (2012)
— Ellen P. Lacter
It was too easy to lie, when you’d practised it a few times. It was hard the first time, but once it flow from your tongue like the perfect summer breeze, and everybody seemed to believe in it, it became mundane. You’d just have to program it first, copy and paste the same old sentences all over again.
— Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight
I'm great at lying to myself.
— Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky
Sometime a #lie is more #honest than the #truth . At least that lie will guide you to the #path you really believe TO walk" It tells , who U R
— Tushar Upreti
Mr. Parker’s mouth dropped open like a toddler had crawled under his desk and whacked him in the giblets. I tried not to giggle as he slowly closed his mouth and stood up from behind his desk. I expected him to start shouting obscenities about the stupidity of pre-marital sex, but he walked around and closed the door behind me. I could practically hear the phone call he would make to my mother in my head. “Connor, I hope I don’t need to give you a lecture about how dangerous it is for someone of your age to engage in such activities?” “No, sir. Trust me when I say, it was an accident and won’t be happening again for as long as I live my life as a single person. Such activities are best left to those with more experience and have joined their lives in holy matrimony.” I fought hard to keep my face sincere and deadpan. I didn’t know what the hell was going on with me, but I liked it. Not only had I come up with the most unbelievable lie in the universe, I sounded heartily sorry for it too.
— Sean Hayden, My Soul to Keep
She will blind everyone with bright light to cover the truth ...
— K. Al Balushi
And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, “Lies.” Excerpt from "Lies
— Angela B. Chrysler
A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.
— Christian Clason
We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie; every person, place, thing and idea is a lie. I do not function properly. I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.
— Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.
— Shannon L. Alder
Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.
— Jennifer Mathieu, The Truth About Alice
People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.
— Anne Perry
Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved...So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they never taught us what was real,Iron and coke,And chromium steel,And we're waiting here in Allentown...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...
— Billy Joel
Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose. We have the next thing to that at the present time
— John Dewey Speech 1917
What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.
— M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.
— E.B. Hudspeth
I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.
— Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
It is not enough to speak but to speak truth
— William Shakespeare
A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.
— Gustavo Gus Larsen
After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.
— Jerome Doolittle
The reality is, no matter what you were told, whatever happened to you as a child was not legally or morally your fault. Abused children are instilled with guilt regarding their "participation." It's an especially complex issue if the abuser is a family member. The child is told and believes that by his word his family will disintegrate, or harm may descend upon other loved ones. He fears he will lose more by telling than not.
— Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.
— Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir
The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the last fifteen years of my life in the theater, I can attest that lying not only is sometimes expedient but can save one's career.
— Amanda DeWees, Nocturne for a Widow
Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways." ~ Angelica Hopes, Haikuan excerpt from If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
And Jesus began to say to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He!’ and will mislead many.”Here Christ cautions His present and future disciples from being misled, meaning not to be deceived, caused to err from the truth, or lead to form a wrong judgment. It is important for us to note that we can be deceived if we heed deceivers, instead of Christ Jesus. Many claim and will claim to know Him, but will point us to themselves, to traditions, to lies, and anything instead of to Christ! We must be careful.
— Billy Witt
...I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind
— Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
Life is a lie and only I know the absolute truth.
— Lydia Supple
It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness," she said, "only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous
— Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
The trick here is arbitrary word assignment: that is, any violence engaged in by ourselves or our friends is ipso facto retaliation and counter-terrorism; whatever the enemy does is terrorism, irrespective of facts.’10 We might say, then, that the golden rule of state violence is: terrorism is what they do, and counter-terrorism is what we do. As Orwell himself observed in his essay, ‘Notes on Nationalism’: ‘Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage – torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians – which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by “our” side.
— David Cromwell, Why Are We the Good Guys?: Reclaiming Your Mind from the Delusions of Propaganda
Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
— Kenneth Eade, HOA Wire
Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm.
— P.D. James
People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.
— Shannon L. Alder
No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.
— Marty Rubin
The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.
— Katie Dale, Someone Else's Life
Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They're ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They're winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end.
— Cora Carmack, Keeping Her
Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever there be too much love?And could love require lies?
— C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Owls
In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.
— Orrin Woodward
So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author's words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date you find a proverb or saying such as: "He who is good to others will be happy." But this is not true. It is a lie. The spectator, perhaps, is content. The spectator likes easy truths. But we are not there to please or pander to the spectator. We are here to tell the truth.
— Jerzy Grotowski
When to others it's not lying. It's privacy.
— Brian Spellman
One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.
— Adam Snowflake
Next minute you’ll be telling me there’s nothing wrong,’ he said softly. ‘One of the all time favourite lies women employ when they’re hiding huge grievances.
— Lindsay Armstrong, When Only Diamonds Will Do
If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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?)
— Davis Grubb
Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.
— Brian Spellman
A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
— Christopher Buehlman
People lie. Promises are broken. A
— Rick Riordan
To own beauty is the first lie of it.
— Chris Campanioni, In Conversation
To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception
— Agatha Christie
I always feel anxious if anyone’s close to uncovering my secrets.
— Carla H. Krueger, The Social Worker
I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.
— John Dean, Blind Ambition: The White House Years
Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.
— Jane Rogers, The Ice is Singing
Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's honour. One lies all one's life long, even, especially, perhaps only, to those who love one. For they alone make us fear for our pleasure and desire their esteem.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.
— George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son