2,241 Quotes About Lies

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Why had the counterfeit timbre of his voice rung true to me? What had prompted me to believe a man who spent most of his life dissembling? Why had I, usually so suspicious, become so credulous and simpleminded in his presence? Was it just that I had wanted to hear someone tell me he loved me? Was it just that the words he spoke, the vows he swore, were so freighted with sweetness that they would have seemed true no matter who spoke them?

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

A cunning liar who relies on the word of another? I suppose I should appreciate the colossal irony.

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it.

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

Read Between The "Lies" Not The Lines

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.