“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“So you’re always honest,” I said.
“Aren’t you?”
“No,” I told him. “I’m not.”
“Well, that’s good to know, I guess.”
“I’m not saying I’m a liar,” I told him. He raised his eyebrows. “That’s not how I meant it, anyways.”
“How’d you mean it, then?”
“I just…I don’t always say what I feel.”
“Why not?”
“Because the truth sometimes hurts,” I said.
“Yeah,” he said. “So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington

“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Adolf Hitler