Best Lying Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”

“Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.”

“Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.”

“For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.”

“Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.”

“After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have to feel, believe, and admit that I do not have conscious control over my selves. It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would be easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.”

“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.”

“Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.”

“The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.”

“Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.”

“Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.”

“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?”

“Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.”

“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”

“Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?”

“I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself:”

“What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.”

“Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.”

“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”

“Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

“I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”

“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”

“...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.”

“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”

“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.”

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”

“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.”