807 Quotes About Lie

As a clinical psychologist, I am regularly confronted with the brutal truth that we are all lie.

Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude.

It sounded so proper to lie for the sake of a beloved.

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar.

Sometimes you have to lie. Sometimes it’s the only way to protect the ones you love.

Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That's not true of course - just a feeling like the quick one of hexing your trip so you couldn't go. The mind is capable of any selfishness and it thinks unworthy things whether you want it or not. Best to admit it is a bad child rather than to pretend it is always a good one. Because a bad child can improve but a good one is a liar and nothing can improve a liar.

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

La mayor parte del tiempo la mentira es el atajo más corto a la felicidad.

Next minute you’ll be telling me there’s nothing wrong,’ he said softly. ‘One of the all time favourite lies women employ when they’re hiding huge grievances.