In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. Votes: 6
Emile ZolaLife is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. Votes: 4
Langston HughesWe make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths... Votes: 4
Bernhard SchlinkBelief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. Votes: 4
Friedrich NietzscheA man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Votes: 4
Jean de la BruyereNo man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. Votes: 4
H. L. MenckenOnly enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Votes: 2
Stephen KingPower is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Votes: 2
Wole SoyinkaHonesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. Votes: 2
James E. FaustTruth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. Votes: 2
Ice CubeDandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be. Votes: 2
Sebastian HorsleyThe artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description. Votes: 0
Jules Amedee Barbey d'AurevillyPornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men. Votes: 0
John StoltenbergThe repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. Votes: 0
Colum McCannUnveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth. Votes: 0
Miranda J. BarrettPretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course. Votes: 0
Sreesha DivakaranEverything I show you is the truth-And the truth is the loveliest of lies. Votes: 0
Richard Alan SimmonsTruth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ... Votes: 0
Phyllis BottomeFreedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillOftentimes lies are found in those closest to you and truth in perfect strangers Votes: 0
Katrina SisowathBecause the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. Votes: 0
Sarah DessenREJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillTruth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting. Votes: 0
Steve SailerYou must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies. Votes: 0
Serina HernandezThe truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass. Votes: 0
James PattersonPoetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies Votes: 0
Oscar SparrowIn wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerStereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time. Votes: 0
Deb CalettiIf I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together. Votes: 0
Sam KinisonYou can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies. Votes: 0
Suzy KassemI have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love. Votes: 0
R. Buckminster FullerThe only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. Votes: 0
Umberto EcoThe English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. Votes: 0
Malcolm BradburyLa ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented. Votes: 0
Georges BraqueForcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does. Votes: 0
Martha BeckThe truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. Votes: 0
Holly BlackThe truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultOur power as Christians is the power of the truth in a world full of lies. Votes: 0
Justin SteckbauerNo mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. Votes: 0
William CongreveTo put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellIf we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsIn woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth. Votes: 0
Anne UrsuSometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear. Votes: 0
Saahil PremIt was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies. Votes: 0
Jeffrey EugenidesI don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth. Votes: 0
Josh LanyonTruth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster. Votes: 0
Ariana FranklinTruth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever. Votes: 0
Eartha KittI welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth Votes: 0
Aneurin BevanAnd diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where. Votes: 0
William CowperYou've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies. Votes: 0
Dennis LehaneBlame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenA novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaA curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it. Votes: 0
Richard SibbesWriting fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. Votes: 0
Khaled HosseiniSo sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part. Votes: 0
Chris MurphyUrge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies. Votes: 0
HomerMy view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world. Votes: 0
Christiane AmanpourNo coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanLies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them ... Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfLove surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies Votes: 0
William ShakespeareAll lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeIn wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillVaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth. Votes: 0
Shauna Singh BaldwinThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. Votes: 0
George OrwellIf lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living. Votes: 0
T.F. HodgeThe lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens. Votes: 0
Justin K. McFarlane BeauWhen lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty. Votes: 0
Clement of AlexandriaEven with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanBefore the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage. Votes: 0
Prince EaIf the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. Votes: 0
Karl KrausIt's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. Votes: 0
Hugh LaurieIt's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. Votes: 0
Gregory HouseLies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. Votes: 0
Johann Georg HamannGood or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIt's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all. Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningThe truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester Votes: 0
Anne PerryIn a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollTruth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. Votes: 0
John HodgmanIf someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt to tell you the truth. Votes: 0
Marshall SylverI sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie. Votes: 0
Megan Whalen TurnerIt is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. Votes: 0
Pearl S. BuckLove - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth. Votes: 0
Pandurang Shastri AthavalePeople only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. Votes: 0
Anne PerryThe reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him. Votes: 0
Lester MaddoxThe trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnWhen my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThe only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies. Votes: 0
Stefan MolyneuxThere's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does. Votes: 0
Bernhard SchlinkAnd whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth? Votes: 0
Lois McMaster BujoldIt isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face. Votes: 0
Rick YanceyWe're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us. Votes: 0
Beth MooreThe bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe. Votes: 0
Eugene J. MartinWe reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth. Votes: 0
Dorothy Salisbury DavisIf wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Truth stands out little in a field of truths. However, it is a ravaging lion, in a field of lies. Votes: 0
T.A. ClineI wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system. Votes: 0
Aileen WuornosIf truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month. Votes: 0
Alan GorrieIn the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him. Votes: 0
Kristin CashoreI have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. Votes: 0
Oscar Wilde