The fabrication of lies often begins as harmless little cover-ups, but these falsehoods can quickly escalate into a web of deceit, causing never-ending problems.
We have curated a collection of quotes about lies in relationships to help you navigate the uncomfortable situations and gain insight from different perspectives. Transparency, honesty, and trust are the foundational pillars of any relationship. Discovering that your partner has been deceiving or lying to you can leave you feeling betrayed and deceived, leading to communication issues within the relationship. If these problems are not addressed in a timely manner, unfortunate circumstances may arise. Take the first step towards making things right by exploring some of the thought-provoking quotes in our post.
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Lying Quotes For Him
Lying Quotes For Her
Lying To Your Wife Quotes
Lying To Your Husband Quotes
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Lying Quotes For Him
When men lie in a relationship, they may not fully grasp the extent of the harm it can cause. Keep reading to understand how lies and deceit can devastate relationships.
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
Every sentence he uttered was like a brushstroke on a canvas of deception. — Anonymous
Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.– Khaled Hosseini
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
You must never lie to the one who trusts you and never trust the one who lies to you.– Anonymous
We’re going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us. – Beth Moore
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.– Edgar J. Mohn
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can’t escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you. – Tom Robbins
Lying to your lover is one way of saying that you want to quit.- Anonymous
Lying Quotes For Her
A single lie or act of dishonesty has the power to shatter the trust between you and your partner, ultimately damaging the beautiful bond you share. Here are some meaningful quotes about lying in a relationship.
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
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 Wife Quotes
Lying to the person who knows you better than anyone else can deliver a devastating blow to your relationship’s foundation.
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
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