I leave you the best phrases of lies and deception of great authors such as Mark Twain, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pablo Picasso, Fiódor Dostoyevski, Robert Louis Stevenson and many more.
You may also be interested in these quotes about honesty or these about the truth.
-Lies are in the mind, but the truth is in the soul.-Sofía Reyes.
-The secret is the mother of all lies.-Toba Beta.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
-The half truth is the most cowardly of lies.-Mark Twain.
-I'd rather be hurt by the truth than to feel consoled with a lie.-Khaled Hosseini.
-History is a set of justified lies.-Napoleon Bonaparte.
-A lie has the power to cloud a thousand truths.-Al David.
-A lie can travel the world before the truth has its boots on.-Terry Pratchett.
-A lie is like a cat: you have to stop it before it goes out the door or it will be really very difficult to catch it.-Charles M. Blow.
-The lies we tell other people are nothing compared to the lies we tell ourselves.-Derek Landy.
-The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.-Ann Landers.
-Living a lie will reduce you to being a lie.-Ashly Lorenzana.
-Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.-TF Hodge.
-The quick pain of the truth can disappear, but the slow agony of a lie is never lost.-John Steinbeck.
34-Lies can make the harsh truths less painful, but pain is essential for growth.-Morgan Rodas.
37-Time turns our lies into truths.-Gene Wolfe.
-Your tongue can tell lies, but your eyes tell the truth.-Amber Jacobs.
-The truth costs. But lies cost more.-Jennifer Donnelly.
-The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie reaches a point where he can not distinguish the truth within him.-Fedor Dostoevsky.
-A liar knows that he is a liar, but he who speaks with the half truth to deceive is an artisan of destruction.-Criss Jami.
-Lies and secrets are like a cancer in the soul. They eat what is good and leave only destruction.-Cassandra Clare.
-Things fall apart very easily when they have been held together with lies.-Dorothy Allison.
-The lie is made with words, but also with silences.-Adrienne Rich.
-When the truth is replaced by silence, silence is a lie.-Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
-The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-There are few reasons to tell the truth, but to lie the reasons are infinite.-Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because humans live according to their beliefs and beliefs can be manipulated.-Michael Ende.
-The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies generally have more flavor. We love them. Lies please by nature.-Katherine Dunn.
-I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.-Scott Westerfeld.
-Lies are neither bad nor good. Like fire, they can keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they are used.-Max Brooks.
18-We are all islands screaming lies at each other, through the seas of misunderstanding.-Rudyard Kipling.
-The more real the lie is for the listener, the more real it becomes for the one who tells it. Some people actually come to believe their own lies.-Hilary Thayer Hamann.
-Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that we can understand. The artist must know the way to convince others of the veracity of his lies.-Pablo Picasso.
-Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.-Khaled Hosseini.
-The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.-Terry Pratchett.
-We lied with greater substance when we lie to ourselves.-Eric Hoffer.
-Living in the truth, not lying to ourselves or to others, is possible only away from the public. The moment someone watches what we do, we involuntarily make concessions for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.-Milan Kundera.
19-Liars make the best promises.-Pierce Brown.
-When the truth is hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie is another brick in the wall until we can not see the truth.-Shaun Jeffrey.
-The eyes show the lies.-Toba Beta.
-There can be no freedom for a community that lacks the means to detect lies.-Walter Lippmann.
-Once you put a liar's crown on your head, you can remove it, but there will always be a stain.-Terry Goodkind.
-The more you defend a lie, the more irate you become.-Mitch Albom.
-A lie always gets people in trouble, but the truth will always get them out of the most serious problems.-Errol Anthony Smythe.
-When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common. They're both lying to you! -Susan Forward.
-Even if the lie is beautiful, in the end you will face the truth.-Lauren DeStefano.
-Lies only strengthen our defects. They do not teach anything, they do not help anything, they do not fix anything or heal anything. Nor do they develop your character, your mind, your heart or your soul.-José N. Harris.
-A liar is always a prodigy of oaths.-Pierre Corneille.
-The promises are lies wrapped in beautiful ribbons.-VC Andrews.
-Some lie about the future because they want to forget the past. But some lie about the past because they think it can give them a future.-Laura Dave.
-People never lie as much as before an election, during a war or after a hunt.-Otto von Bismarck.
-A storyteller invents things to help other people; A liar invents things to help himself.-Daniel Wallace.
-The madness is that everyone hopes that you do not fall apart when you discover that everything you believed in is a lie.-Shannon L. Alder.
-Humility is nothing other than the truth, and pride is nothing other than the lie.-St. Vincent de Paul.
-Our lie is like a cancer that spreads to every area of our lives.-Simone Elkeles.
-In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.-Robert McKee.
-Within every elaborate lie there is a core of truth.-Marisha Pessl.
42-The consolation of a lie is better than the absurdity of the truth.-Tanya Huff.
-What is too absurd to be believed, is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.-Robert Jordan.
-The truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie crawls like a snake.-Suzy Kassem.
-Lying is a full-time occupation, even if you only tell a lie. Once you lie, you are stuck with that lie to its last consequences.-Hilary Thayer Hamann.
-For all good reason to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.-Bo Bennett.
-People only lie because they are afraid of the truth.-Madison Reil.
-You can't lie your whole life, son. Either you tell the truth or the truth will give you away.-Daniel Black.
35-Lies can be formed from truths, but truths cannot be formed from lies.-Suzy Kassem.
-A man who teaches a truth and nothing else, is more just than a man who teaches a million truths and a lie.-Criss Jami.
-Lying is a flourishing vocation.-Susanna Centlivre.
-The brain is not reliable. It is based on lies.-Brian Spellman.
-A smiling lie is like a whirlwind, it is easy to enter it, but it is difficult to escape.-Dejan Stojanovic.
-Many truths that are not believed are called lies.-Isobelle Carmody.
-Lies have always been easier to invent than reality.-Marty Rubin.
-Some people choose their own version of the truth. Unfortunately, it is not always the honest version.
-Lies generate distrust and distrust brings conflict.-Robin Jarvis.
-Lies are terrible things. It could be said that the greatest sins that afflict modern society are the proliferation of lies and silences.-Haruki Murakami.
-I would even prefer to fail with honor, than to win by cheating.-Sophocles.
-Drawing is the purity of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It can be good or bad.-Salvador Dalí.
-All good things are difficult. Everything bad is easy. Dying, losing, cheating and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from the easy.-Scott Alexander.
-Cheating at school is a sign of self-deception. We go to school to learn and we are deceived when we take advantage of the efforts and wisdom of another person.-James E. Faust.
-The chocolate is not making a fraud! After a salty meal, you need a little sweet. This is to exist, not to cheat.-Ali Landry.
-The most important thing about being a role model is whatever I preach, I'm practicing.-Gigi Hadid.
-The more people normalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can transform into a vicious and bearish cycle.-Stephen Covey.
-Someone who considers that the world is always deceiving him, is correct. You lack that wonderful effect of trust in someone or something. Eric Hoffer.
-In addition to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing anyone could do to me.-Robert Buckley.
-Do something because you really want to. If you do it only for the purpose and you do not enjoy the road, then you are deceiving yourself.-Kalpana Chawla.
-Human resources are similar to natural resources; they are often buried deep. You have to look for them.-Ken Robinson.
32-As society becomes more and more complex, obstacles will become easier and easier to witness and more difficult to control or even understand.-Vitalik Buterin.
-Cheating is almost never a real act when being with another person.-Emily V. Gordon.
-I love to investigate. It's like cheating, but with permission.-Greg Rucka.
-One of the most challenging things in life is not being the type that cheats, but becoming the one who does not say anything about it and agrees.-Dale Murphy.
-If war were a card game, I would say that someone is cheating.-Spike Milligan.
-Cheating and lying are not problems, they are reasons to break.- Patti Callahan.
-The truly frightening thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our own base.-Cheryl Hughes.
-When a man cheats, it is said that it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is suggested that it is because her man is a dog.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana.
-To truly value loyalty, you must first endure the anguish of betrayal. -Thomas Merritt.
-No one is too busy to pick up the phone and make a one-minute call. It does not matter how busy they say they are.-Candace Bushnell.
-Stop cheating to become a millionaire. Stop stealing to be rich. Stop catching other people's valuables to keep them for yourself.-Israelmore Ayivor.
-Never expect to get milk from a bull.-Bikash Chaurasiya.
-Checkers are the most horrible creatures in the world.-Munia Khan.
-The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights. They blame the darkness in broad daylight.-Bikash Chaurasiya.
-If God's gift were for personal use and gain, God would have used it personally.-Ernest Agyemang Yeboah.
-Honesty is more than not cheating. It is true saying, speaking, living the truth and conquering the truth.-James E. Faust.
-The drawback of lying and cheating is that its effectiveness depends entirely on a clear notion of the truth that the liar and the deceiver want to hide.-Hannah Arendt.
-There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they cannot tell the truth without lying.-Josh Billings.
-A lie has no power by its mere expression. Its power arises when someone else agrees to believe the lie.-Pamela Meyer.
-Advertising is a legalized lie.-HG Wells.
-There are two ways to lie. One, without telling the truth, and the other, inventing statistics.-Josefina Vazquez Mota.
57-Curiosity is on the lookout for every secret.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-A good riddle is something honest. Nobody is lying, that is very clear. The problem depends only on you.-Erno Rubik.
-The essence of the lie is in deception, not in words.-John Ruskin.
-The little white lies are told by humans all the time. In fact, cheating is often the way we spend each day in a happy little bubble.-Barry Ritholtz.
-To pretend, I certainly do something: I just pretend to pretend.- Jacques Derrida.
-Anyone who indicates that he is a good liar obviously is not. Any genuinely clever liar will always insist that he is honest about everything.-Chuck Klosterman.
-Nobody believes a liar. Even when she is telling the truth.-Sara Shepard.
-The fiction was devised the day that Jonah came home and told his wife that he had arrived three days late because a whale had swallowed him.-Gabriel García Márquez.
-Moms lie. It's in the job description.-John Green.