2,241 Quotes About Lies

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.

I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will not lie

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.