All Quotes By Tag: Lie

“Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control….Sometimes things take on a life of their own. You become powerless. There is nothing you can do to stop certain things from happening.”

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

“To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.”

“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”

“Many lies lie between one truth.”

“Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.”

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”

“They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.”

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.”

“For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth–about everything. That will teach them”

“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”

“I’d rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.”

“Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.”

“Look, it’s easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire,” Jace said. “They’re no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they’re as cunning as snakes. They can’t lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They’ll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place.” He sighed. “They’re not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.”

“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.”