Lies Told Quotes

People believe what they are told. — Jacqueline Carey

I would have told a thousand lies to have him, and a thousand more to keep him — Alexis Hall

When I was young, I told a lot of lies; so I grew up and wrote all of them all down. — Jason W. Blair

There's 3 sides to every story. Time will tell who the real asshole is despite what you were told. — April Mae Monterrosa

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. — Theodor Adorno

Too much truth in the hands of a liar is more dangerous than a world of lies told to the truthful — Thomas R. Williams

I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself. — Gabrielle Zevin

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world aboutthe American Black man. — John Oliver Killens

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth. — S.A. Tawks

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell. — Alcoholics Anonymous

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told. — Samuel Johnson

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. — Alan Dershowitz

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

One of the greatest lies ever told is that there's no power in vulnerability. — Dianna Hardy

The best lies about me are the ones I told. — Patrick Rothfuss

Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion, but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman's face. — Alyscia Cunningham

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward. — Adam Johnson

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? — Jodi Picoult

Of all the lies you've told me, that's the one I resent the most. — Kiera Cass

But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves. — Don DeLillo

What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead. — Stefanie Schneider

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived. — Kelsey Grammer

I don't really care what people say about me. I'm fine with lies and rumors. It's the truth I don't want being told. — Katja Millay

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me. — Evelyn Waugh

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. — Stephenie Meyer

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism. — Chelsea Handler

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders. — Big Boi

He'd learned that lies were only dangerous if you sometimes told the truth. — Maggie Stiefvater

Lies told in a carefree tone with lips parted in a practiced smile are often believed. — Katherine Owen

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

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar. — Patrick DeWitt

Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself. — Jaleigh Johnson

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth. — Anne Ursu

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie. — Ken Gire

A secret told is mine to tell. Of truth and lies, the lesser hell. — Sally Gardner

If we're told that human ain't the highest among creatures,
then it'd be difficult to raise human dignity into current level. — Toba Beta

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself. — Van Morrison

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake

But the lie had already buried itself inside of Scarlett, as lies that children are told often do. — Stephanie Garber

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders. — Dee Hock

The truth is so precious," Churchill told Stalin, "that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies. — William Manchester

I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same. — Daniel Nayeri

The perjurer's mother told white lies. — Austin O'Malley

They told you that you were safe. They told you lies. You are weak and defeated. For the price of one helicopter, we have brought you to your knees. — Thomas Waite

You should've told me Tess," I murmured against her hair. "You helped me find my humanness but you took it away with your lies. — Pepper Winters

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana

Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books. — Catherynne M Valente

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. — Halldor Laxness

A bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby. — Toba Beta

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself. — Michelle Sagara West

You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say. — Sitting Bull

The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told. — Charles Ludlam

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. — David Bailey

Most of what you have read or watched in the media is true and 100% accurate. But HOW you are told the stories, and When, there lies the manipulation! — Waseem Kanjo

And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told... — Deyth Banger

the pain from lies scars a soul, especially those lies told to oneself. — Emily March

Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told. — Maggie Stiefvater

Hell = where we get rid of all the lies told to us. That's where we go and cry like rain. Mom, hell is where you go to see yourself. — Ana Castillo

She'd marry George who was richer anyway ... lies, all lies! "I want you to do your homework from now on," Powell told the child. "And — Diana Palmer

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all — Zooey Deschanel

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.) — William Boyd

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself. — Ruby Wax

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet. — Cormac McCarthy

Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was. — Paula Hawkins

She asked me the definition of beauty. So I told her name in my reply! — Avijeet Das

I've told too many lies. I hold too many secrets. Who can I really trust? Who can trust me when I don't even trust myself? — Katherine Owen

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. — Charles Dickens

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated. — James Rozoff

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him. — Kristin Cashore

The cruelest lies are often told without a word
The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard — Ben Folds

If there is the truth to be told to the young, is the truth of not to lie. — Auliq Ice

He was not a man who told himself comfortable lies. — Robert Galbraith

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies. — Jessica Khoury

He sallied forth, having told all those bally lies with the clear, blue, pop-eyed gaze of a young child. — P.G. Wodehouse

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle. — P. J. O'Rourke

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know. — Anne Rice

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. — Maya Angelou

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them. — Chief Joseph

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies. — Tom Verlaine

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart. — Kate Clinton

The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything - except the truth. — Rick Riordan

The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I'll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told. — Courtney Milan

Ethics do not require that lies be told to children by evil old men — Christopher Hitchens

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth. — Elizabeth Wein

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love. — Rita Mae Brown

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments. — Jemima Khan