Quotes in the category lies.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.
How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.
We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The feelings must be followed. It doesn't matter whether you're an ideologue or a sensualist, you follow the stimuli thinking that they're your signposts to the promised land. But they are nothing of the kind. What they are is rocks to navigate the past, each on your brush against, ripping you a little more open and they are always more on the horizon. But you can't face up to the that, so you force yourself to believe the bullshit of those you instinctively know are liars and you repeat those lies to yourself and to others, hoping that by repeating them often and fervently enough you'll attain the godlike status we accord those who tell the lies most frequently and most passionately. But you never do, and even if you could, you wouldn't value it, you'd realise that nobody believes in heroes any more. We know that they only want to sell us something we don't really want and keep from us what we really do need. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe we're getting in touch with our condition at last. It's horrible how we always die alone, but no worse than living alone.
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick
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
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
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