Quotes in the category lying.
By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.
I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
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