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Honesty renders your heart defenceless, and lying fucks with your head. That's why I choose to remain silent and protect them both instead. — K.M. Golland

Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie. — Nicole Castle

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. — Michel De Montaigne

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth. — Joseph Goebbels

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. — Robert Breault

We are lying to ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves. — Marty Rubin

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb. — Dean Koontz

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. — Criss Jami

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. — Steve Maraboli

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. — Criss Jami

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. — George Washington

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M Valente

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie. — Dan Fogelberg

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them. — A.W. Tozer

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger. — Tad Williams

Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies. — Yvan Audouard

The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest. — Albert E. Bowen

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy. — Ian McKellen

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man. — Mike Norton

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web. — Jenna Alatari

Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story. — Charles De Lint

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. — Criss Jami

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A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying. — Rick Riordan

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average. — Saul Bellow

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything. — Randi Rhodes

Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

In time, lies bring turmoil, where honesty brings peace. — Wes Fesler

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. — Antonio Porchia

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception. — Nenia Campbell

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. — Francis Bacon

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth. — Norman Mailer

It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar — Christopher Paolini

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does. — Martha Beck

Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying. — Anthony Liccione

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. — Croft M. Pentz

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie. — Joseph Curiale

Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable. — Wes Fesler

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A very honest woman but something given to lie — William Shakespeare

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true. — Joyce Rachelle

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit. — Marvin J. Ashton

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies. — Edward Young

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. — James E. Faust

Inept lying was almost as good as honesty. — Graham Moore

Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth. — Marisha Pessl

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things. — Dan Rather

Anything is better than lies and deceit! — Leo Tolstoy

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. — Sydney J. Harris