2,241 Quotes About Lies

People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.

You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...

The right sort of lie, I found, could serve better than the truth.

[Rangers] discover the truth though it is surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.