Quotes about lies

„I can be manipulated only so many times
Before even 'I love you' starts to sound like a lie.“

—  Demi Lovato American singer, songwriter, actress, and author 1992

For The Love Of A Daughter
Lyrics, Unbroken (2011)

„I knew better than to let you break my heart
The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars
You still love her I can see it in your eyes
The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.“

—  Demi Lovato American singer, songwriter, actress, and author 1992

Every Time You Lie
Lyrics, Here We Go Again (2009)

„Some friends are more significant and important than other friends. A special friend can often change your life for the better. You will know when this special person enters your life because of the respect you have for them. They will never lie or set you aside for someone or something else. You will have undying trust in this person that any words spoken will never find another ear. They always returned calls at the earliest possible time. They will check in often to see what is going on in your life and just talk. Your accomplishments will be applauded with praise and losses will never be repeated. This friend has you melted within their heart as you do theirs. When you find such a person be sure to return the love and understand they have gifted you and your life.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1983

„Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue.“

—  Andrew Biersack American singer-songwriter 1990

„But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.“

—  Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

„I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.“

—  Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017

„The first thing a man will do for his ideal is lie“

—  Joseph Alois Schumpeter Austrian economist 1883 - 1950

„If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.“

—  Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

„I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
But when I wake up, I see
You with me

And you say
As long as I'm here
No one can hurt you
Don't wanna lie here
But you can learn to
If I could change the way that you see yourself
You wouldn't wonder why you hear
"They don't deserve you"“

—  Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

"everything i wanted"
Singles (2017 - )

„Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)“

—  Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967

Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)

„I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.“

—  Julia Quinn American novelist 1970

Source: Ten Things I Love About You

„I don’t believe in "right person, wrong time", the Universe doesn’t lie. The right person will come at the perfect time.“

—  Ralph Smart

„Honesty is, honestly, the best policy,” said Saracen. “But when honesty doesn’t work, lie, and lie convincingly.“

—  Derek Landy Irish children's writer 1974

Source: The Dying of the Light

„What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked.
“I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said.
“Have you known me to lie before?”
“The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.“

—  Brandon Sanderson American fantasy writer 1975

Source: The Final Empire

„The modern economist has become even more insistent in his belief that the ultimate forces underlying economic development lie, strictly speaking, outside the economic sphere. As Meir and Baldwin put it, half humorously, “economic development is much too serious to be left to economists.”“

—  David C. McClelland American psychological theorist 1917 - 1998

1957, p. 119
Source: The Archiving Society, 1961, p. 11

„It will be a very hard thing to leave the country that God gave us. Our friends are buried there, and we hate to leave these grounds…. There is something strong for us — that fool band of soldiers that cleared out our lodges and killed our women and children. This is hard on us. There at Sand Creek — White Antelope and many other chiefs lie there; our women and children lie there. Our lodges were destroyed there, and our horses were taken from us there, and I do not feel disposed to go right off to a new country and leave them.“

—  Little Raven (Arapaho leader) Southern Arapaho chief 1810 - 1889

At the signing of the Little Arkansas Treaty (October 1865), as quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 100

„At that time (last spring) [U. S., 1928] I did not consider this medium to be of any signal importance in the world of art; merely a very amusing stunt cleverly executed.... however, wishing to return to Paris, I felt it would be quite justifiable to have an exhibition here, where "clever stunts" are highly appreciated, so I came over 3 months ago and set to work, carving wood and twisting wire. These new studies in wire, however, did not remain the simple modest little things I had done in New York. They are still simple, more simple than before; and therein lie the great possibilities which I have only recently come to feel for the wire medium.“

—  Alexander Calder American artist 1898 - 1976

1920s, Statement on Wire Sculpture' (1929)

„Autumn is no time to lie alone“

—  Murasaki Shikibu, book The Tale of Genji

The Tale of Genji

„My lands are where my dead lie buried.“

—  Crazy Horse Oglala Sioux chief 1840 - 1877

As quoted in National Geographic Vol. CX (July-December 1956), p. 487