Not Telling Lies Quotes

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. — Martha Graham

Had my brother really seen me somehow, or was he merely a boy telling beautiful lies? — Alice Sebold

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth. — Orson Scott Card

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. — Pietro Aretino

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. — Thomas Jefferson

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

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later. — Nicholas Haslam

What is it they say about telling lies? You have to remember every detail, and sooner or later you get caught. — Adrian R. Magnuson

If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game. — Belva Rae Staples

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood. — Robert Kennedy

Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit. — Marilyn Celeste Morris

Was I a secret not worth sharing
Or
Was I a fact not worth telling? — Dawn Lanuza

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies — Glen Carter

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans. — Raheel Farooq

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now. — Paul O'Neill

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try. — Tom Holt

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them — Adlai E. Stevenson II

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. — Lillian Hellman

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then. — Mario Puzo

To be straight means to be loyal to the truth. — Auliq Ice

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. — Helen Rowland

Myths are lies that tell the truth. — Phil Cousineau

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth. — Deacon Jones

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn — Abbi Glines

To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies. — Val Edward Simone

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. — Malcolm Bradbury

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running. — Ljupka Cvetanova

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity. — Amit Ray

Truth is much like fire. Hard to understand, ever-changing. — Will Bly

The kiss has started something bigger between us, and the lies I'm telling Stirling will only get worse from here on in. — K.C. Finn

Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. — Gabrielle Zevin

Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. — Franz Kafka

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies. — R.M. Ford

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Matter signals to its lost voyagers, telling them that their quest is vain, and that their homeland already lies in ashes behind them. — Nick Land

(Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you. — Christopher Hitchens

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. — George Orwell

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. — Chauncey Depew

I believe now that we're the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat. — Hannah Brencher

Lies so convincingly you'd swear they were telling the — Abigail Strom

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth? — Lois McMaster Bujold

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster. — William Shakespeare

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth
about everything. That will teach them — Seth Adam Brown

Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. — Brock Clarke

When the hate don't work , they start telling lies. — Werley Nortreus

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. — Jane Fonda

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. — Ally Carter

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. — Bell Hooks

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies. — Khaled Hosseini

Telling lies does not work in advertising. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything. — Anton Chekhov

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean De La Bruyere

He kept telling me his affair was over, but I kept catching him in lies. He wouldn't shake this woman, and I simply could not trust him anymore. — Brandi Glanville

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

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. — Franz Kafka

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what. — Margot Livesey

All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie. — Auliq Ice

Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it. — Yuval Noah Harari