Nothing hurts more than being ignored, replaced, forgotten, or lied to.
Too many prefer gentle lies to hard truths.
– Shane Parrish
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
– Otto von Bismarck
Some people lie so much, they actually start believing their lies are the truth.
Fake news engenders fake debates, and fake debates result in fake politics. It is a means to take the focus far away from the real problems that affect people.
– Ravish Kumar
Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.
– Yoko Ono
Tell a lie once and all your truth becomes questionable.
It is better to slap the truth than to kiss a lie.
Lying is never the best option, but in some situations it is necessary.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
– Baltasar Gracian
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
– Seneca
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
– Johann Kaspar Lavater
No matter how good a liar can be. The truth will come at some point in time, even if it takes years. Living honestly brings peace even though the truth hurts for a bit.
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
– Billy Sunday
Majority may rule in many things, but a lie does not cease to be a lie just because is believed by many people.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
– Alfred Adler
No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.
– Richard Yates
A pretense is as bad as a lie. They are both deceptions.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A false statement is a lie. Someone who is good at twisting the truth is a lair.
– Dr T.P.Chia
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
– Eric Hoffer
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don’t believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.
– John Steinbeck
No lie ever reaches old age.
– Sophocles
Lies require commitment.
– Veronica Roth
A lie travels farther than the truth.
– Irish Proverb
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
– William James
The truth, even if nobody believes it, is the truth.
A lie will always stay a lie no matter how you say it.
Even if all believe in a lie. It will not become the truth.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie;for an excuse is a lie guarded.
– Alexander Pope
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
– Samuel Butler