Lies Quotes

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Michael  Jackson
“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
Michael Jackson

Cassandra Clare
“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

Derek Landy
“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"

"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"

"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Derek Landy, Death Bringer

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Anne Rice
“I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

John F. Kennedy
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]
John F. Kennedy

Max Brooks
“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
Nietzsche

Jeanne Birdsall
“...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.

- Mr. Penderwick”
Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

“I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”
Al Pacino

Pierce Brown
“Liars make the best promises.”
Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true”
Lady Gaga

“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”
Al David

Jeanette Winterson
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Toba Beta
“Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
Toba Beta

Beth Moore
“We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.”
Beth Moore, So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Khaled Hosseini
“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
Khaled Hosseini

Susan Forward
“When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!”
Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

Terry Pratchett
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

Muriel Rukeyser
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
Muriel Rukeyser

Ashly Lorenzana
“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
Ashly Lorenzana

Catherine Fisher
“I have walked a stair of swords,
I have worn a coat of scars.
I have vowed with hollow words,
I have lied my way to the stars
-Songs of Sapphique”
Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame
“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.”
Flora Jessop, Church of Lies

Philip Pullman
“I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.”
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

A.S. King
“Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?”
A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
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“In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.”
Kristin Cashore, Graceling

Shannon L. Alder
“Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.”
Shannon L. Alder

Daniel Wallace
“A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”
Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam

Jennifer Salaiz
“How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.”
Jennifer Salaiz