Common sense Quote by Bethany L. Brand

“Seems to me that the important thing about a lie is not the content, but the way it is told, the spirit of it.…

— Lake Union Publishing

“The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.”

— James Edwin Gunn

“We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.”

— Marcel Proust

“Fact, in overt disguise, is often all people need to embrace lies invented as distraction.”

— Ellen Hopkins

“You will have a peace of mind when you tell the truth and people think it is a lie, than we you tell a…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“This is the thing about a lie: over time, it not only obscures the truth but consumes it. Those who pursue veracity (those dogooders,…

— T. Greenwood

“A lie is a forgery of a truth that is too big to embrace because of a prejudice that we’re too afraid to confront.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.”

— Neil Gaiman

“There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because…

— Richard Diaz

“Lying is such a central characteristic of life that better understanding of it is relevant to almost all human affairs.”

— Paul Ekman

“Impact of telling a lie: The day it is spoken to the day it is caught.”

— Neeraj Bhanot

“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not the one…

— Colum McCann