Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

Lies can destroy, but not create.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.