Lies Quotes

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster We lie best when we lie to ourselves. ~ It by Stephen King An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. ~ The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell "There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget." ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad "Slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath,
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world." ~ Cymbeline by William Shakespeare "People will forget almost any slander except one that's been fought." ~ The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington For slander lives upon succession,
For ever hous'd where it gets possession. ~ The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare "What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!" ~ Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens "The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority." ~ An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen