I leave you 85 Lies phrases And deceptions of great authors like Mark Twain, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pablo Picasso, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Robert Louis Stevenson and many more.
We live in a society full of errors and defects. Brutal honesty - that transparency of character that could free us forever - is not always the best way to let people around us know what their worst flaws are. Is that why we lie? Should we be careful to use negative adjectives and only draw with the word a positive reality?
You may also like These quotes about honesty .
1 - The man who lies to himself and hears his own lie reaches a point where he can not distinguish the truth within him. - Fedor Dostoyevsky
2 - A liar knows that he is a liar, but he only speaks with the half truth to deceive is a craftsman of the destruction. - Criss Jami
3 - Lies and secrets are like a cancer in the soul. They eat what is good and leave only destruction. - Cassandra Clare
4 - The most cruel lies are often said in silence. - Robert Louis Stevenson
5 - Things crumble very easily when they have been held together with lies. - Dorothy Allison
6 - The lie is made with words, but also with silences. - Adrienne Rich
7 - Half truth is the most cowardly of lies. - Mark Twain
8 - When truth is replaced by silence, silence is a lie. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
9 - The visionary lies to himself, the liar alone to others. - Friedrich Nietzsche
10 - There is little reason to tell the truth, but to lie the reasons are endless. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
11 - When it comes to controlling humans there is no better instrument than lies. Because humans live according to their beliefs and beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. - Michael Ende
12 - I prefer to be hurt by the truth than to feel comforted by a lie. - Khaled Hosseini
13 - The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies usually have more flavor. We love them. Lies please by nature. - Katherine Dunn
14 - I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. - Scott Westerfeld
15 - Lies are not bad or good. Like fire, they can keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they are used. - Max Brooks
16 - We are all islands shouting lies to each other, across the seas of misunderstanding. - Rudyard Kipling
17 - The more real the lie for the listener, the more real it becomes for the speaker. Some people actually come to believe their own lies. - Hilary Thayer Hamann
18 - A lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. - Al David
19 - Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least of the truth that we can understand. The artist must know how to convince others of the truthfulness of their lies. - Pablo Picasso
20 - Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to reach a greater truth. - Khaled Hosseini
21 - The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. - Terry Pratchett
22 - We lie more enjundia when we lie to ourselves. - Eric Hoffer
23 - Living in truth, not lying to ourselves or to others, is possible only far from the public. The moment someone watches what we do involuntarily we make concessions for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. - Milan Kundera
24 - The liars make the best promises. - Pierce Brown
25 - A lie can travel the world before the truth has its boots on. - Terry Pratchett
26 - If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. - W. Somerset Maugham
27 - A lie is like a cat: you have to stop it before it leaves the door or it will be very difficult to catch it. - Charles M. Blow
28 - When the truth hides behind a wall of lies, every lie is another brick in the wall until we can not see the truth. - Shaun Jeffrey
29 - The eyes show the lies. - Toba Beta
30 - There can be no freedom for a community that lacks the means to detect lies. - Walter Lippmann
31 - Once you put a crown of a liar on your head, you can remove it, but there will always be a stain. - Terry Goodkind
32 - The more you defend a lie, the more angry you become. - Mitch Albom
33 - The lies we tell other people are nothing compared to the lies we tell ourselves. - Derek Landy
34 - Remember, any lie told to you, even deliberately, is often a fact more significant than a truth told in all sincerity. - Halldór Laxness
35 - The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. - Ann Landers
36 - You know there's no such thing as an absolute lie. There is always some truth in it. - David Levithan
37 - A lie always puts people in trouble, but the truth will always get them out of the most serious problems. - Errol Anthony Smythe
38 - When your lover is a liar, you and he have much in common. Both of you are lying! - Susan Forward
39 - Living a lie will reduce you to a lie. - Ashly Lorenzana
40 - Even if the lie is beautiful, in the end you will face the truth. - Lauren DeStefano
41 - Lies only strengthen our faults. They do not teach anything, they do not help anything, they do not fix anything or heal anything. Nor do they develop your character, your mind, your heart and your soul. - José N. Harris
42 - A liar is always a prodigy of oaths. - Pierre Corneille
43 - Promises are lies wrapped in beautiful tapes. - V.C. Andrews
44 - Some lie about the future because they want to forget the past. But some lie about the past because they think it can give them a future. - Laura Dave
45 - People never lie as much as before an election, during a war or after a hunt. - Otto von Bismarck
46 - Do not spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth. - T.F. Hodge
47 - A narrator invents things to help other people; A liar invents things to help himself. - Daniel Wallace
48 - The madness is that all hope that you do not fall apart when you discover that everything in what you believed is a lie. - Shannon L. Alder
49 - Humility is nothing other than truth, and pride is nothing but a lie. - St. Vincent de Paul
50 - Our lie is like a cancer that spreads to every area of our lives." - Simone Elkeles
51 - You have to lie under certain circumstances and at all times when you can not do anything about it. - Harper Lee
52 - In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. - Robert McKee
53 - Within each elaborate lie there is a nucleus of truth. - Marisha Pessl
54 - The consolation of a lie is better than the absurdity of truth. - Tanya Huff
55 - What is too absurd to believe, is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. - Robert Jordan
56 - The truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie crawls like a snake. - Suzy Kassem
57 - It may be false, with lies and deceit, but this is the world in which we find ourselves and here we must do our little lives. - Ian McDonald
58 - Lying is a full-time occupation, even if you only tell a lie. Once you lie, you're stuck with that lie to its end. - Hilary Thayer Hamann
59 - Secrets and lies, everyone in this world has to deal with this every day of their lives. To protect yourself. To protect someone else. It all depends on how you look at it. - Lacey Thorn
60 - For every good reason you have to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. - Bo Bennett
61 - People only lie because they are afraid of the truth. - Madison Reil
"You can not lie all your life, son. Either you tell the truth or the truth will betray you. - Daniel Black
63 - I know that sometimes a lie is used with kindness. I do not think it really works kindly. The quick pain of truth may disappear, but the slow agony of a lie is never lost. - John Steinbeck
64 - What you lie about (the aspiration to be a consummate writer, the fantasy of an exotic story and a cosmopolitan family) is always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. - Tim Kreider
65 - Lies can be formed from truths, but truths can not be formed from lies. - Suzy Kassem
66 - A man who teaches a truth and nothing else, is more just than a man who teaches a million truths and a lie. - Criss Jami
67 - When the world is full of lies, it will reveal a hidden secret for a long time. - Mark Mirabello
Lies can make hard truths less painful. But I think pain is essential for growth. - Morgan Rodas
69 - The secret is the mother of all lies. - Toba Beta
70 - Lying is a flourishing vocation. - Susanna Centlivre
I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie. - Mark Wahlberg
72 - The brain is not reliable. It is based on lies. - Brian Spellman
73 - A smiling lie is like a whirlwind, it is easy to get into it, but it is difficult to escape. - Dejan Stojanovic
74 - Time turns our lies into truths. - Gene Wolfe
Many truths that are not believed are called lies. - Isobelle Carmody
76 - Lies have always been easier to invent than reality. - Marty Rubin
77 - The lies are in the mind, but the truth is in the soul. - Sofía Reyes
78 - Those who love truth are not obliged to listen to lies or distorted news or junk news. - Errol Anthony Smythe
79 - Some people choose their own version of truth. Unfortunately, it is not always the honest version. - Anonymous
80 - Lies generate mistrust and distrust brings conflict. - Robin Jarvis
81 - If you look at the world today, lies are an ordinary thing. Truth is a marginal phenomenon. - Jaggi Vasudev
82 - Lies are terrible things. It could be said that the greatest sins that afflict modern society are the proliferation of lies and silences. - Haruki Murakami
83 - We hate simple lies that we can easily spot, but we love lies that are well made. To the point that we take them almost as reality, the lies difficult to detect are the ones that give meaning to our lives. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
84 - Your tongue can tell lies, but your eyes tell the truth. - Amber Jacobs
85 - The truth costs. But lies cost more. - Jennifer Donnelly