Lying Quotes

“You can’t lie to me forever, Cyrus. I’m going to find out the truth about you, and when I do, I promise you this: I’ll ruin him. I’ll make the devil regret the day he was born.”
― Tahereh Mafi, All This Twisted Glory

“The trick of any good lie is just finding an audience who wants to believe it.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I don't like lying,' Preston folded his arms over his chest. 'I know it's not realistic, but the world would be a better place if everyone just told the truth.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Taking something at face value is assuming that the ‘face’ is not a mask.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we are forced to read between the lines, whatever it is that we end up reading needs to be used to rewrite the lines.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Co by to bylo za velkého lháře, který by dokázal oklamat jen ostatní? Lhát se musí tak, aby tomu člověk sám uvěřil - to je umění!”
― Leonid Andreyev, Satan's Diary

“What are you to me?' she asked.

Archer's eyes locked with hers. 'Nothing.'

But it didn't feel like nothing when his fingers reached down and he took hold of the sash that kept her robe tied together. He held it as if he couldn't decide if he wanted to untie it or tug her closer to him.

'Why are you lying?' she asked.

'I thought we'd already established that I'm not very kind.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“I see all the more reason for debate by the man who does actually 'believe his own lies' - for that debate is at least One versus One. But if even he doesn't believe them then it's really just a waste of time, or rather Won versus None.”
― Criss Jami

“It depends on the situation.” He was outright laughing at her now. She could tell by the tone of his voice, even though he was managing to hold back the actual laughter. “But in any situation with you, it means nothing, okay?”
― Jane Washington, Tourner

“Intentions are the seeds, but actions are the harvest; what you sow is what you reap.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“I have never been good at pretending, but somewhere there's an award engraved with my name, for playing alive, despite the times I watched myself die.”
― Stephanie Bennett-Henry

“I tell no lies. Lies are the devil's nightsongs. The devil sees all. He sits in a corner chewing on the marrow of aborted fetuses. I can smell him at night, the odor of burnt carcasses and manure. When he breathes heavily, when he is in fear, black smoke rises from his crown which makes you retch blood. He leaves behind marks of his hoofs and claws, soot from hell that no amount of washing can clean. Although sometimes they appear as an infant's footprints which make you so happy.”
― Charlson Ong, Of That Other Country We Now Speak and Other Stories

“I was not bruised.'

The prince eyed me. 'I do enjoy your lies.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“There's nothing about a lock,' Angela replied in a way that made it clear that there was something going on with the lock.”
― Maureen Johnson, Nine Liars

“Lies, she noted, took energy. They weighed a lot. She had to think about everything she said and did now to support the lie. It sat there in her head, giving off vibes.
“Lies were radioactive.”
― Maureen Johnson, Nine Liars

“Planets never lie. People do.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Planets never lie. Only people do.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“He who speaks but half the truth is sometimes more mischievous than a liar.”
― H. Rider Haggard, Moon of Israel

“She was filled with lies!”
― Steven Magee

“I am not sure what was true with her.”
― Steven Magee

“No cause is ever so great that we must lie to insure its survival.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sorting out the truth is less about figuring out the truth and more about determining why the truth was so threatening that someone felt it necessary to lie about it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lies would not exist except for the fact that the truth does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lies are constructed of compromise. Therefore, they are pliable enough to present themselves as the truth that they are lying about.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You do not possess the power to make something what it is not. But you do have the power to believe the lie that you did, which makes it difficult to embrace the reality that you cannot and should not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lie will never be the truth that we are feverishly attempting to make it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A thousand lies do not have the force to produce one truth, other than the truth that they are lies.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The weight of the lie will never lighten the load of the circumstance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When it comes to the holes that we’re in, lies promise ladders but deliver shovels.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough