Quotes about Lies
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.
— Donald Trump
The powers of insanity never slept, always vying for a voice that justified their lies. Insanity. The insane self. The false self. The flesh self. The ego, the mistaken mind, the costume, the roommate…
— Ted Dekker
The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.
— Frank Peretti
Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Satan is screaming lies over us all day long. And God whispers the truth is a still, small voice. So often the voice we listen to most is the one we hear loudest.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
— Elias Canetti
The ability to concoct plausible lies is a talent not to be underestimated
— Margaret Atwood
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
— Anne Lamott
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
— Anne Lamott
The greatest defense against the storm of lies that the enemy would use to drain every moment of joy from your life is to surround yourself with the truth of God's Word.
— Sheila Walsh
And the sad thing is that while men refuse to believe the Word of the living God, yet they are sufficiently credulous to accept Satan's lies.
— AW Pink