Memorable Quotes About Lies

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"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite."
Tennessee Williams
"Men as a rule love to be deceived."
Blaise Pascal
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
Hannah Arendt
"The truth hurts. But lies hurt even more."
Unknown
"We are all liars, but the most dangerous ones are those who lie to themselves."
Richard Wright
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"It is easier to lie than to tell the truth."
Edward W. Said
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"Your lies will always find you out."
Proverb
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."
Confucius
"Let me be clear: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself and lies."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"When you lie, you steal the right to the other person's reality."
Alain de Botton
"Liars are always most disposed to swear."
V. S. Naipaul
"Truth is the opposite of good or evil. It stands on its own."
Nina Simone
"A man is only as good as his word."
His Majesty Nitin Gadkari
"There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
Buddha
"Lies are like a credit card; it looks good until you can't pay the bill."
Unknown
"Who lies for you will lie against you."
Bosnian Proverb
"The purpose of a lie is to corrupt the soul."
Anonymous
"A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if no one believes it."
Anonymous
"There are two kinds of people: those who want to change the world and those who want to lie to it."
Anonymous
"You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you."
Mary Tyler Moore
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"A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on."
Winston Churchill
"Truth is the ultimate measure of all things."
Philosophical Adage
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it."
H.L. Mencken
"A man is not judged by the pitfalls he falls into but by the lies he tells to cover them up."
Anonymous
"It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact one has never heard before."
Anonymous
"The only way to get the truth is to tell a lie."
Anonymous
"Lying is done with words and also with silence."
Adrienne Rich
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
John Stuart Mill
"The lie is a part of the truth."
Anonymous
"Lies can overshadow the deepest longing for truth."
Anonymous
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"Lies are like boomerangs; they come back to you."
Anonymous
"A lie can be a dark shadow; the truth shines like the sun."
Anonymous
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"Lies are like scars to your soul. They destroy you."
Rebecca McNutt
"Lies can only serve as a temporary solution."
Nikita Khrushchev
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity."
Buddha
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!"
Sir Walter Scott
"The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever."
Unknown
"One lie is enough to question all truths."
Unknown
"Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the truths you could reveal."
Michael K. Nielsen
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
Leonardo da Vinci
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
George Washington
"Lies are such wicked things. We didn't even mean to, and yet we still go around telling them."
Beezus Quimby
"A lie does not become truth, wrong does not become right, and evil does not become good, just because it is accepted by a majority."
Booker T. Washington
"Better to be hurt by the truth than to be comforted with a lie."
Unknown
"You can’t lie to me; within me lies the truth."
Kristen McKee
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
Mahatma Gandhi
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
"When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie."
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The truth is out there, but it won't be what you expect."
Unknown
"If you want to know the truth, you must be willing to hear it."
Unknown
"The liar's world is a prison."
Jared Diamond
"Liars need to have good memories."
Alfred Adler
"The most important thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never lie to yourself."
Megan Fox
"A half-truth is a whole lie."
Yiddish Proverb
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
George Bernard Shaw
"A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth."
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts
"Truth is the foundation of all human rights."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a hundred times than to believe a fact that nobody has heard before."
Unknown
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."
Lao Tzu
"A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on."
Winston Churchill
"Lies are like a flammable material. The bigger the lie, the quicker it ignites."
Joseph Goebbels
"We are all so busy in our society that we often tell ourselves we can’t do it all—to make it true we tell ourselves lies."
Maya Angelou
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty."
Richard J. Needham
"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."
Steve Landesberg
"When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth."
Khaled Hosseini
"To be truthful is a sign of trustworthiness; to be trustworthy, a sign of maturity."
T. J. E. McGowan
"Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it."
Robert Brault
"The lie is a mirror that reflects nothing but deceit."
Unknown
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Jonathan Swift
"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth."
Unknown
"There is no such thing as an innocent lie."
Léon Bloy
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Winston Churchill
"A truth that’s told with bad intention beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
"Lies are like scars on your soul. They destroy you."
Khaled Hosseini
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Marcus Aurelius
"The lie is a condition of life."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We are all liars. We all tell lies. We lie all the time."
Andrew McCarthy
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you."
Oscar Wilde
"Lies have become the norm. Deceit is considered wisdom. Honesty is not escapable, nor valuable."
Marilynne Robinson
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
James A. Garfield
"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"If you lie to me, I can't trust you. The same goes for everybody."
Unknown
"I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable lie."
Edmund Burke
"Truth is the daughter of time."
Plato
"Lies are like spider webs; they trap the unwary."
Unknown
"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."
Edward R. Murrow
"A half truth is a whole lie."
Yiddish Proverb
"The catalog of human misery is a measure of the lies we tell."
David Mamet
"A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future."
Viktor Hugo
"The most difficult thing in the world is to tell the truth. The next most difficult is to accept it."
Unknown
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