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  • #1
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #2
    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    Benjamin Disraeli

  • #3
    Criss Jami
    “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

  • #4
    Veronica Roth
    “Lies require commitment.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #5
    “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
    Walter Langer

  • #6
    Ally Carter
    “It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
    Ally Carter, Heist Society

  • #7
    Dorothy Allison
    “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
    Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

  • #8
    Walter  Scott
    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
    Walter Scott, Marmion

  • #9
    Jarod Kintz
    “She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her.”
    Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

  • #10
    Tim O'Brien
    “A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
    Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

  • #11
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “The best lies about me are the ones I told.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #12
    Scott Westerfeld
    “I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”
    Scott Westerfield, Extras

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #14
    Adrienne Rich
    “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
    Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying

  • #15
    Sara Shepard
    “Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.”
    Sara Shepard, The Lying Game

  • #16
    André Malraux
    “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
    André Malraux

  • #17
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #18
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

  • #19
    Al Pacino
    “I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”
    Al Pacino

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
    Mark Twain
    tags: lies

  • #21
    Michael Ende
    “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, The Neverending Story

  • #22
    Katherine Dunn
    “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”
    Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

  • #23
    Anne Rice
    “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #24
    “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”
    Al David

  • #25
    A.S. King
    “Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?”
    A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
    tags: lies

  • #26
    Marissa Meyer
    “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, Scarlet

  • #27
    Shannon L. Alder
    “If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #28
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  • #29
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #30
    Michael  Jackson
    “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
    Michael Jackson



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