Sylvia Plath Quotes

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

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

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.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.