#lies

"I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie."

"To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken."

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

"Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit."

"A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent."

"Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time."

"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

"Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used."

"Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment."

"Eyes shows lies."

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

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

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

"When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface."

"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."

"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."

"She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her."