170+ Lies Quotes: Quotes About Lies In A Relationship

Did you know that nearly 70% of people admit to lying to their partners — often about seemingly minor things? When these harmless cover-ups morph into deep-seated falsehoods, they can unravel the very fabric of trust in a relationship. 

This article brings you a collection of powerful lies quotes to help you confront the uncomfortable truth about deception and its repercussions. By exploring these insights, you’ll understand the essential role of honesty, transparency, and trust in nurturing healthy relationships. Discover how to navigate the murky waters of betrayal and communication challenges before they escalate.

Lies Quotes

Fabrication of lies often begins innocuously, with simple white lies meant to avoid hurting feelings or sidestepping awkward moments. Yet, as these lies accumulate, they transform into a labyrinth of deceit, complicating what could be straightforward interactions. Lies quotes reflect this truth: “What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive,” serves as a reminder that even trivial untruths can ensnare us in more significant issues. The emotional toll can be profound, leaving partners feeling isolated and vulnerable.

As you navigate the rocky terrain of mistrust, remember that honesty can serve as a guiding light. “The truth often hurts, but a lie can hurt forever,” resonates deeply in the context of relationships — emphasizing the perpetual cycle of hurt that breeds from deceit. Every lie told chips away at the foundational pillars of trust, leading to an inevitable crisis. 

Quotes About Lies in Relationships

The Cost of Lies in Love

• “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.” — Unknown
• “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” — Adrienne Rich
• “A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere.” — Michael J. Herbert
• “Once trust is broken, some attitudes have to be changed because they are needed to build it up again.” — Unknown

Betrayal and Broken Promises

• “Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.” — Jonathan Swift
• “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” — Stephen King
• “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” — Arthur Miller
• “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” — Bo Bennett

The Truth Always Prevails

• “The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever.” — Unknown
• “A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.” — Edgar J. Mohn
• “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
• “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” — Plato

Lessons From Deception

• “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.” — Sigmund Freud
• “Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” — Khaled Hosseini
• “Lies are like scars on the soul. They destroy you.” — Patricia Cornwell
• “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
• “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” — H. L. Mencken

Moving On From Deceit

• “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” — Thomas Jefferson
• “A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your integrity.” — Unknown
• “When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves.” — Oprah Winfrey
• “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” — Ernest Hemingway
• “A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.” — Baltasar Gracián

Lying Quotes For Him

• Just gonna stand there and hear me cry. Well, that’s alright because I love the way you lie.— Eminem
• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying.–William Shakespeare
• A single lie and misrepresentation in a relationship makes one question every truth ever there was in it.— Anonymous
• When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• Anything is better than lies and deceit! – Leo Tolstoy
• The worst part is being lied and cheated by the person who didn’t consider you to be his truth. — Anonymous
• Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.– Steven Soderbergh
• I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.– Winston Churchill
• Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magical effects.– Ricky Jay
• Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.– Khaled Hosseini
• I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. — Veronica Roth
• For him, truth was his shadow, always following him but remained concealed. — Anonymous
• Every time you lie to me, it brings us a little closer to bidding farewell.  — Anonymous
• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. — Mark Twain
• Lying to the one who loves you is telling them that you don’t deem them worthy of your truth — Anonymous
• For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.– Bo Bennett
• There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.– Jack Nicholson
• Of all the lies I’ve heard, ‘I love you’ was my favorite.– Anonymous
• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.― George Washington
• The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.― André Malraux
• There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.– Denis Diderot
• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.– Stephen King
• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf
• A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. – Tim O’Brien
• Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. – Michael Jackson
• The hurt of a lie and betrayal stays forever in the heart.— Anonymous
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.– Samuel Butler
• When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. — Criss Jami

Lying Quotes For Her

• It is said that women make better liars than men. But for a woman who has a deep feeling of respect for the relationship and her partner, lying and putting the relationship at risk is the toughest thing to do.– Anonymous
• If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. — Christine Feehan
• Being single is better than being lied to and cheated on. — Anonymous
• When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. — Khaled Hosseini
• Behind her sweet smile, lies danced and illuminated her darkest secrets. — Anonymous
• In her plot, truth wore a mask, and deception played the leading role. — Anonymous
• Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love. — Bonnie Eaker Weil
• Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off. — Natalie Portman
• If lying was a job, some people like you would have turned into millionaires.  — Anonymous
• She wore a cloak of deception, concealing her true self in a halo of deceit. —Anonymous
• Speaking the truth may hurt temporarily but telling a lie hurts forever. — Anonymous
• The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.– Stephen King
• I never lie…At least not to those I don’t love. — Anne Rice
• The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them. — Elena Gorokhova
• Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. — Dorothy Allison
• The person who promises never to lie is already playing a game with you. — Anonymous
• Never lie when a woman asks you something. Maybe she knows the answer already.  — Anonymous
• Cheaters will only understand the pain when somebody cheats on them. — Anonymous
• I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.– Barbra Streisand
• “Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.”- Pamela Meyer
• A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.– Thomas Mann
• She was an enchantress in true sense, making truths disappear in her magic of words. — Anonymous
• The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you. – Molly Ringwald
• People start to lie more once they start to care less.– Rain Cooper
• “I don’t need to know everything but I do need to know that what you are telling me is true.”- Anonymous
• No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth. — Sara Shepard
• Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.– Susan Sontag
• I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.– Shakira
• There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Lying is just letting people believe what they want to be true. – Megan Whalen Turner
• Words can lie. See beyond them. – Victoria Aveyard
• Lying is done with words, and also with silence. — Adrienne Rich
• I’d rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie. – Ana Monnar

Lying To Your Husband Quotes

• Duplicitousness is the shortcut method to kill your relationship — Anonymous
• When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true. — Cheryl Hughes
• If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. — Bruce Lee
• A lie may heal you for the present, but it can never lead to a happy future. — Anonymous
• An honest foe is better than a deceptive friend. —Anonymous
• Cheating was easy, but impossible to take back.— Dean Osborne
• One lie is enough to question all the truth. — Samaira Ansari
• The strength of truth lies in love and the strength of love lies in truth. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
• When your partner asks you to tell the truth, listen to him. He probably knows your deceptiveness already. — Anonymous
• Cheating is the most selfish thing a person can do in a relationship! If you’re not happy with the person you’re with then end it. It’s that simple! — Jerry Springer
• It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you. ― Michael Bassey Johnson
• I heartily accept apologies, but not deception. — Anonymous
• Don’t disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing’s wrong. — Scottie Pippen
• ‘It was a mistake,’ you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. — David Levithan
• Lying is one of the simplest ways to ruin a beautiful relationship. — Anonymous
• You can’t save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough. — Tony Gaskins
• Lying to your lover is the cruelest way in which you can show them you don’t care. — Anonymous
• Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end. — Lauren DeStefano
• For a relationship to flourish, it needs an affair. However, the affair needs to be with your own self … your inner self. —Lebo Grand
• Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.— Mia Ashe
• Lying to your husband is like drinking poison to ruin your own happiness. — Anonymous
• If you would like for your husband to spin you a web of cunning lies and not respect you with the truth, go ahead, lie to him. — Anonymous
• Your mendacity may comfort today and kill tomorrow. A truth hurts today and strengthens tomorrow. — Anonymous
• I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned and broken, but somehow it still works. —Alcatraz Dey
• Once someone cheats in the relationship, there’s no reason to stay. If they truly loved you they would’ve never cheated. — Anurag Prakash Ray
• The saddest part of lying to your favorite person is to carry the guilt and shame that follows for a lifetime. —Anonymous

Lying To Your Wife Quotes

• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.– Pietro Aretino
• If you are looking for a short-term solution, think about lying to your partner. But remember that it destroys your long term relationship.– Anonymous
• Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up. — Patti Callahan Henry
• Beauty is often deceptive, so I prefer an ugly truth over a beautiful lie. — Anonymous
• You didn’t just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke our future. — Steve Maraboli
• No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it. — Rose Wynters
• Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons. — Jeanne Birdsall
• Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved. —Richelle E. Goodrich
• Treachery is the easy way out only for a very short while. And then it becomes a torturous mountain to climb. —Anonymous
• Once trust is broken, it’s like a cracked mirror. You can look into it, but the image will never quite be the same.
• Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend. — Danka V.
• People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.— Leah Hager Cohen
• Those who cheat on their partners who are loyal to them; don’t deserve them. It is a trashy attitude to disrespect a person who is loyal in a relationship, by cheating on him or her.—Ellen J. Barrier
• One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. — Al David
• The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. —Cheryl Hughes
• What hurts more is not that you lied but that I don’t know how to trust you anymore. — Anonymous
• Lying is easy. But it’s lonely. — Victoria Schwab
• There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth. — Holly Black
• Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper. — Peter Singer
• Once a cheater, always a repeater. — Melissa Edwards
• Cheating is the most disrespectful thing one human being can do to another. If you aren’t happy in a relationship, end it before starting another one. — Abhishek Tiwari
• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. — Sacha Guitry
• Duplicity does not just obscure the truth. Often, it obscures the love itself.¬ Anonymous
• There are different ways to be confused about how someone’s disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future. — Laura Dave
• A relationship is true only when there is no place for lies or craftiness between the two of us. — Anonymous
• Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections. —Israelmore Ayivor
• One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you … and then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go. — Drake
• Even if you lie a hundred times, remember that lying is not worth losing the trust and respect of your near ones. — Anonymous
• In any intimate relationship, the intimacy thrives on transparency and shrivels when the truth is veiled. — Anonymous
• That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. — Amy Tan
• Cheating only thrills those who cannot see the beauty in faithfulness. — Michael Bassey Johnson
• Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime. — E.B. Spredemann
• Infidelity is mentally, emotionally, and physically painful to the betrayed spouse. Be gentle with yourself as you heal.— Dr. Karen Finn

Short Lies Quotes

• “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” — Winston Churchill
• “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
• “I don’t lie—I’m just really good at fiction.” — Unknown
• “Some people would rather climb a tree to tell a lie than stand on the ground to tell the truth.” — Unknown
• “The problem with lying is that you have to keep track of which lies you told to whom.” — Unknown
• “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” — Stephen King
• “Never argue with a liar. You can’t win because they believe their own lies.” — Unknown
• “I don’t need a lie detector test, I just watch how fast you change your story.” — Unknown
• “A liar is always lavish with oaths.” — Pierre Corneille
• “If I had a dollar for every lie you told, I’d be rich enough to buy the truth.” — Unknown
• “A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.” — Edgar J. Mohn
• “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy
• “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” — Al David
• “Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.” — Todd Wagner
• “Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.” — William Shakespeare
• “People don’t lie to protect your feelings. They lie to protect theirs.” — Unknown
• “A liar will always be a liar. They just get better at it.” — Unknown
• “Half a truth is often a great lie.” — Benjamin Franklin
• “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” — Tom Clancy
• “Liars need good memories.” — Algernon Sidney
• “It’s not the lie that bothers me. It’s the insult to my intelligence that I find offensive.” — Unknown
• “I’m not saying you’re a liar… I’m just saying you’re very creative with reality.” — Unknown
• “The best way to tell if someone is lying? Watch their lips—if they’re moving, they’re lying.” — Unknown
• “Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.” — Unknown
• “A lie is a very short-lived victory. The truth always takes the trophy home.” — Unknown

Conclusion

The road to a healthy relationship is paved with honesty and transparency. Even small lies can erode the foundation of trust, leading to significant misunderstandings and emotional turmoil. The lies quotes shared in this collection serve as poignant reminders of the detrimental effects of deceit and the value of open communication.

Ignoring the issues arising from dishonesty can result in unresolved tensions that may ultimately jeopardize the relationship. Reflecting on these insights can empower you to foster a more truthful and open connection with your partner. Embrace honesty and make a conscious effort to create a trusting atmosphere in your relationship.

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