2,241 Quotes About Lies

The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more.

I let out a slow breath, wondering if someone had slipped LSD into the water. Because the past two months spent with Lachlan had felt like a trip, replete with swirling color, levitation, toe-curling pleasure and the type of madness that incites uncontrollable laughter and tears.

This is a world of lies and always has been. We live in a time of even greater deceptions than in centuries past. So much of what we're told, what we see on TV, what we read in the newspapers or on the Internet, is invented to conceal the truth, protect the wicked, increase the power of those who already have more power than all the kings of history combined.""I don't disagree," she said. "But what does that have to do with the price of a pistol?

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.