148 Lies And Deception Quotes

Lies and deception are timeless themes that have captured the human imagination for centuries. Whether woven into classic literature, dissected in philosophical texts, or echoed in daily conversations, the concepts of dishonesty and betrayal resonate universally. They stir emotions, provoke thought, and often leave lasting impressions. In this collection, we've curated the top 148 lies and deception quotes from various sources to delve into the complexities of truth and illusion. These quotes not only offer profound insights but also serve as reminders of the consequences and the intricate nature of falsehoods. Prepare to journey through words that challenge perceptions and reveal the innate human struggle with integrity.

1. “We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.” - Eric Hoffer

2. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” - Walter Langer

3. “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

4. “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” - George Carlin

5. “Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. ” - Edward Said

6. “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

7. “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.” - S.E. Hinton

8. “I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.” - Mark Twain

9. “Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.” - Denis Johnson

10. “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” - Nietzsche

11. “Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.” - Tacitus

12. “Nothing is ever certain.” - Alice Sebold

13. “Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...” - Terry Pratchett

14. “Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.” - George Eliot

15. “In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.” - Kristin Cashore

16. “lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.” - Giacomo Casanova

17. “Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!” - Sidney Howard

18. “We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.” - Frans Kellendonk

19. “The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.” - Wilfred Owen

20. “If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.” - Martin Luther

21. “Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.” - John Steinbeck

22. “Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility...” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

23. “Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.” - Ian McDonald

24. “There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.” - Vera Nazarian

25. “World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.” - Ernest Hemingway

26. “The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.” - Israel Zangwill

27. “We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.” - Beth Moore

28. “I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it`s not a lie.” - Mark Wahlberg

29. “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” - Dorothy Allison

30. “You must not let me out,' it warned him gently, as it saw his eyes rest on the lock.'If you release me now that I know my nature, I could not help but unmake the enchantment of the mirrors. You see, they are tame now and they show only what people want and need to see in them. The wildness of them is bound up in my form, though I did not know it for a long time. If I were uncaged, I could not help but tear at the enchantment until I was unnamed. Then I would fly into all of the mirrors and windows and into shining footpaths after rain. The mirrors would become wild and they would be absolutely, utterly truthful. Everything would be seen for what it truly was. My laughter would greet every lie and every pretense. It would rumble like a volcano under the smooth surface of everything. You can imagine the chaos it would cause here, for those who dwell in the greylands do so because the mirrors are tamed. If I were free, people would come to be afraid of them. They would cease to believe in their reflections and eventually they would no longer believe in themselves. No, laughter must remain caged here.” - Isobelle Carmody

31. “Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.” - Oliver Goldsmith

32. “A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.” - Iwan Goll

33. “His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.” - Shaun Jeffrey

34. “...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick” - Jeanne Birdsall

35. “Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be close to the truth. Magic, wyrd, words, dreams, they all come from the spirit. Within them lie both power and peril. For to misuse any is to warp your sense of self. To lie in words, or in magic, or in dreams -- that is how you become lost. The lights you see, they were lost long before they came to the Vale. ” - Robert Fanney

36. “When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.” - Mark Mirabello

37. “There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.” - Laura Dave

38. “One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.” - Harper Lee

39. “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.” - Ray Bradbury

40. “It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.” - Kim Edwards

41. “When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” - Michael Ende

42. “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.” - George Orwell

43. “Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.” - Toba Beta

44. “He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.” - Philip K. Dick

45. “Because we’ve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It’s ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you’re supposed to believe in’s really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it’s a good bet you remember ‘No new taxes’ and ‘Out of the loop’ and ‘No direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time’ and Did not inhale’ and ‘Did not have sex with that woman’ and etc. etc. It’s depressing and painful to believe that the would-be ‘public servants’ you’re forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you’re an idiot. So who wouldn’t fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect?” - David Foster Wallace

46. “The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.” - William Shakespeare

47. “Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment.” - W. Somerset Maugham

48. “He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.” - Megan Whalen Turner

49. “Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.” - Halldor Laxness

50. “Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out.""Yes, sir," Andrews said."Well, there's nothing," McDonald said. "You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you — that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else. Then you know you could of had the world, because you're the only one that knows the secret; only then it's too late. You're too old.""No," Andrews said. A vague terror crept from the darkness that surrounded them, and tightened his voice. "That's not the way it is.""You ain't learned, then," McDonald said. "You ain't learned yet. . . .” - John Williams

51. “All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.” - Woody Allen

52. “The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

53. “Analogies are like lies.” - Roman Payne

54. “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

55. “How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.” - Jennifer Salaiz

56. “You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.” - Steve Maraboli

57. “I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.” - Barack Obama

58. “It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.” - Timothy B. Tyson

59. “Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.” - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

60. “Secret is the mother of all lies.” - Toba Beta

61. “One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.” - Franz Kafka

62. “The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true” - A. Dragonblood

63. “MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE:When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him.Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:• He’s not the man I thought he was.• The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know what to do• The relationship may be over. Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.” - Susan Forward

64. “Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.” - Susan Forward

65. “Reality CheckHis lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with. That doesn’t mean you’re an angel and he’s the devil. It does mean that if he doesn’t like certain things about you, he has many ways to address them besides lying. If there are sexual problems between you, there are many resources available to help you. Nothing can change until you hold him responsible and accountable for lying and stop blaming yourself. The lies we tell ourselves to keep from seeing the truth about our lovers don’t feel like lies. They feel comfortable, familiar, and true. We repeat them like a mantra and cling to them like security blankets, hoping to calm ourselves and regain our sense that the world works the way we believe it ought to. Self-lies are false friends we look to for comfort and protection—and for a short time they may make us feel better. But we can only keep the truth at bay for so long. Our self-lies can’t erase his lies, and as we’ll see, the longer we try to pretend they can, the more we deepen the hurt.” - Susan Forward

66. “Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.” - Holly Black

67. “Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.” - George R.R. Martin

68. “Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.” - Sologub Fedor a

69. “It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.” - David Levithan

70. “A liar is always lavish of oaths.” - Pierre Corneille

71. “In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.” - Megan Chance

72. “It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.” - René Descartes

73. “All we shared was a mattress, and a lie, and an addressBaby I don't need you, well baby I don't need youOnce occupied by a goddess, now it's a room full of boxesShe said, "it's time to leave you" but baby I don't need you! In a perfect world... her face would not existIn a perfect world... a broken heart is fixed” - Billy Talent

74. “Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” - Sara Shepard

75. “You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you” - Daniel Black

76. “Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.” - T.F. Hodge

77. “Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.” - Criss Jami

78. “The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.” - Criss Jami

79. “Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.” - Lauren DeStefano

80. “And the bummer thing is, ghosts never leave. They might leave you alone sometimes, but they're always there deep down, whispering lies in your ear. They echo the lies others told you: That you're not smart enough; that you're not pretty; that you'll never amount to anything.” - Josh Shipp

81. “Lies require commitment.” - Veronica Roth

82. “One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.” - George Washington

83. “To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.” - Flora Jessop

84. “Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” - Cassandra Clare

85. “The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part” - Cassandra Clare

86. “Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.” - Nick Harkaway

87. “And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.” - Michael Moorcock

88. “Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.” - Charles Martin

89. “The real reason we have faces," Margot Lassiter observes, "is to hold back what we're thinking from the world.” - Eli Gottlieb

90. “Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?” - Sergei Lukyanenko

91. “The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.” - Mitch Albom

92. “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” - Zoë Marriott

93. “Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.” - Michael Grant

94. “Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.” - Caroline Kettlewell

95. “The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

96. “You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.” - Clive Barker

97. “Ask no questions, I tell no lies.” - Holly Cupala

98. “Time turns our lies into truths.” - Gene Wolfe

99. “Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.” - Toba Beta

100. “Vielleicht gibt es ja gar keine tollen, wunderbaren Menschen. Und wir reden es uns für eine kurze Weile nur ein, dass der oder der toll und wunderbar ist, damit wir einen Grund haben, uns in ihn zu verlieben. Sozusagen ein Alibi für die Liebe.” - Brigitte Blobel

101. “Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.” - Aljean Harmetz

102. “Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.” - Kristin Cashore

103. “Lies can open up the doors to imagination.” - Lionel Suggs

104. “He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!” - Seanan McGuire

105. “Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.” - Terry Brooks

106. “[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.” - Stefano Benni

107. “She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he’d be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He’d lie there for a few minutes. He’d be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He’d brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park.But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.” - Francine Pascal

108. “Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.” - Michelle Sagara West

109. “YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.” - Terry Pratchett

110. “Emma, la maestra de la mentira. La reina del "Mi hermano es normal", "Mi hermano es tímido". Mi hermano es muy enfermizo, tiene alergias, mononucleosis, intoxicación alimentaria, la gripe. Y la mentira más grande y más turbia de tods: "Mi hermano".” - Brenna Yovanoff

111. “I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost. That's a running sore” - John Steinbeck

112. “For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.” - Sue Miller

113. “When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?” - Shannon L. Alder

114. “A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.” - Dennis Sharpe

115. “When to people tell the same lie...""They are working together," Will finished” - Cassandra Clare

116. “Behind every "Truth" there is always a "Lie", Behind every " Lie" there is always a "Reason", and behind every " Reason" there is always a "Person"....” - shujoy chowdhury

117. “The heart never lies” - Christine Love Never Dies

118. “Men lie the most,women tell the biggest lies.” - Chris Rock

119. “Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.” - Derrick Jensen

120. “In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.” - Robert McKee

121. “When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.” - Diane Setterfield

122. “No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.” - Nancy Farmer

123. “From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset” - Criss Jami

124. “99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no match for their addictions. They will be driven to do things they would normally never have considered all in the name of getting high. Sad, but true. So if you're thinking of trying drugs, keep in mind that all the people you will be dealing with are likely to steal from you and lie to you at your own expense.” - Ashly Lorenzana

125. “Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.” - Dejan Stojanovic

126. “[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.” - Roman Payne

127. “We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.” - Shannon L. Alder

128. “The Truth is different than human truths; they are like LIGHT.Truths are like a color, absolute and true, while THE TRUTH is all colors and still colorless; the duality of Truth.” - Caesar J. B. Squitti

129. “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.” - Marissa Meyer

130. “Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the story that you tell about it. In order for truth to be recognized as true, it has to be wrapped in plausibility. Just the same as lies. ("Another Word: Plausibility and Truth” - Daniel Abraham

131. “It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.” - Terry Pratchett

132. “Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.” - Jean Rhys

133. “World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom” - jay woodman

134. “The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.” - George Eliot

135. “No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.” - Nikki Rosen

136. “There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.” - A.J. Hartley and David Hewson

137. “Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?”He laughed and flicked his whip again, harder. He was in a better mood than I had seen for months.“No, Camelot, not hope. Hope is for the weak; have I not succeeded in teaching you that? To hope is to put your faith in others and in things outside yourself; that way lies betrayal and disappointment. They didn't want hope, Camelot; they wanted certainty. What a man needs is the certainty that he is right, no self-doubt, no fleeting thought that he might be wrong or misled. Absolute certainty that he is right—that's what gives a man the confidence and power to do whatever he wants and to take whatever he wants from this world and the next.” - Karen Maitland

138. “A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.” - Charlotte Armstrong

139. “A lie, when believed, became the truth.” - Michelle M. Pillow

140. “Война - это путь обмана. Поэтому, даже если [ты] способен,показывай противнику свою неспособность. Когда должен ввести в бойсвои силы, притворись бездеятельным. Когда [цель] близко, показывай,будто она далеко; когда же она действительн далеко, создавайвпечатление, что она близко. Изобрази выгоду, чтобы завлечь его. Сотвори беспорядок [в егосилах] и возьми его. Если он полон, приготовься; если он силен, избегай его. Если он в гневе, беспокой его; будь почтителен, чтобы он возомнил осебе. Если враг отдохнувший, заставь его напрячь силы. Если он объединен, разъедини его. Нападай там, где он не приготовился. Или вперед там, где он не ожидает. Таковы пути, которыми военные стратеги побеждают. Но о них нельзяговорить наперед.” - Sun Tzu

141. “Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.” - Lauren Oliver

142. “...but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.” - Ripley Patton

143. “Apollo. I’m the fucking Lord of the Underworld. Do you honestly think I need to get my jollies by lying to others? I can think of so many better things to do.” - Rosanna Leo

144. “We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

145. “Who are you?" the woman said at last."Lyra Silver—""No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?" Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.” - Philip Pullman

146. “It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.” - Dennis E. Adonis

147. “People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.” - Dennis E. Adonis

148. “I want to be known as the 23 year-old who is foolishly in love with a Prince she can't see. I want to rejoice while holding the rose of singleness, even when my hands bleed from its thorns. I want to resist the urge to envy the pairs growing in the middle of my neighbors' gardens. I want to be rooted in the simple truth that unripen pairs taste like lies and lingering loneliness. 
I want to put Jesus on my bullet wound and cling to His heart wrenching hope because He was kind enough to be a Band-Aid when He should have stayed a King.” - Katie Kiesler