Quotes about lies

„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, Death and Taxes

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, Ten Things I Love About You

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, The Dying of the Light

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, The Final Empire

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
p. 11
The Archiving Society, 1961

„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)

„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

„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

„The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.“

—  Karen Marie Moning author 1964

„Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we all have created. But that is just another convenient lie. Because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame. Some people – some companies and some decision-makers in particular – have known exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money.“

—  Greta Thunberg, book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Teen activist tells Davos elite they're to blame for climate crisis, CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/europe/greta-thunberg-davos-world-economic-forum-intl/index.html (25 January 2019)
Cited in No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, Penguin Books, 2019, pages 17-18 (ISBN 9780141991740).
2019, World Economic Forum (January 2019)

„When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.“

—  Robyn Carr American writer

Harvest Moon

„Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie.“

—  Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986

"Fifth Talk in Bombay 1950 (12 March 1950) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=352&chid=4672&w=%22Truth+is+not+something+in+the+distance%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 500312, The Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 134
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The moment you have a path to truth, you divide it, because the path is exclusive; and what is exclusive at the very beginning will end in exclusiveness. The man who is following a path can never know truth because he is living in exclusiveness; his means are exclusive, and the means are the end, are not separate from the end. If the means are exclusive, the end is also exclusive. So there is no path to truth, and there are not two truths. Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie.

„She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Variant: she’s mad, but she’s magic.

„Don’t turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1996

„The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.“

—  T. H. White, book The Book of Merlyn

The Book of Merlyn (1977)