#lies

"You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there."

"One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths."

"You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful."

"It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face."

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]"

"How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail."

"Eyes shows lies."

"Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time."

"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs."

"I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none."

"To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest."

"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."

"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."

"To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)"

"When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie."

"His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore."

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."

"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on."

"Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying."