2,241 Quotes About Lies

The powerful can make the truth dance to their song.

One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All workers have the right to a safe workplace.

Every performance is a deceit and deceits have their place. I thought back to the painted library, remembered that deceits could even be an artform.

id rather be with the person i already knew, than the person i barely knew.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.

Truths are dangerous," he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

People like honesty when it favors them.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

But is it fake if people believe in it? You assume that it is truth that makes a story valuable, because the tales that come from the Storian are true. The Storian writes history. But man is capable of writing stories too and man has no obligation to truth or to history.