Simon Van Booy Quotes

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere

I lie as truthfully as I can.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.