Someone once said, and I quote, “The worst thing you can do in a relationship is to lie. The truth may hurt for a little while but a lie hurts forever.”
There are several reasons why people lie in relationships. Someone may lie simply because he/she wants to manipulate their partner, hide something from them, or avoid conflict. Also, partners lie in relationships due to some forms of insecurity. Whatever the case, there is hardly any way that lies should be excused or justified in any relationship.
Moreover, lies build distrust and negatively affect meaningful relationships gravely. We have assembled quotes about lies in relationships that will give you insight into people’s diverse perspectives and perhaps give you reasons why lying is bad for any couple.
10 Lying Relationship Quotes About Men
1. Every sentence he uttered was like a brushstroke on a canvas of deception. — Anonymous
2. For him, truth was his shadow, always following him but remained concealed. — Anonymous
3. There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.– Jack Nicholson
4. Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.― André Malraux
5. If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. — Christine Feehan
6. A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit – Anonymous
7. A cheating boyfriend will always lie and eventually hold back on his feelings no matter how much he loves you―Anonymous
8. By a lie, a man…annihilates his dignity as a man – Immanuel Kant
9. Man is least himself when he talks in his person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde
10. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying. — William Shakespeare
10 Lying Relationship Quotes About Women
1. Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off. — Natalie Portman
2. In her plot, truth wore a mask, and deception played the leading role. — Anonymous
3. She wore a cloak of deception, concealing her true self in a halo of deceit. —Anonymous
4. Never lie when a woman asks you something. Maybe she knows the answer already. — Anonymous
5. She was an enchantress in true sense, making truths disappear in her magic of words. — Anonymous
6. No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth. — Sara Shepard
7. Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies… a man’s lie is, “I’m at Tony’s house, I was at Kenny’s house!” A woman’s lie is like, “It’s your baby!” – Chris Rock
8. Behind her sweet smile, lies danced and illuminated her darkest secrets. — Anonymous
9. Women lie about sex. It doesn’t matter how many partners she says she’s had before you. She’s lying – Richard Madeley
10. In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethnic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. – Carol Gilligan
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40 Lying Relationship Quotes About Couples
1. Lying to your lover is the cruelest way in which you can show them you don’t care. — Anonymous
2. Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end. — Lauren DeStefano
3. For a relationship to flourish, it needs an affair. However, the affair needs to be with your own self … your inner self. —Lebo Grand
4. Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.— Mia Ashe
5. Lying to your husband is like drinking poison to ruin your own happiness. — Anonymous
6. 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
7. Your mendacity may comfort today and kill tomorrow. A truth hurts today and strengthens tomorrow. — Anonymous
8. The saddest part of lying to your favorite person is to carry the guilt and shame that follows for a lifetime. —Anonymous
9. 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
10. 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
11. Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up. — Patti Callahan Henry
12. Beauty is often deceptive, so I prefer an ugly truth over a beautiful lie. — Anonymous
13. Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.– Khaled Hosseini
14. 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
15. Treachery is the easy way out only for a very short while. And then it becomes a torturous mountain to climb. —Anonymous
16. 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.
17. 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
18. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. — Al David
19. The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. —Cheryl Hughes
20. What hurts more is not that you lied but that I don’t know how to trust you anymore. — Anonymous
21. Lying is easy. But it’s lonely. — Victoria Schwab
22. 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
23. Duplicity does not just obscure the truth. Often, it obscures the love itself. – Anonymous
24. There are different ways to be confused about how someone’s disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they want to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future. — Laura Dave
25. A relationship is true only when there is no place for lies or craftiness between the two of us. — Anonymous
26. 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
27. Even if you lie a hundred times, remember that lying is not worth losing the trust and respect of your near ones. — Anonymous
28. In any intimate relationship, the intimacy thrives on transparency and shrivels when the truth is veiled. — Anonymous
29. Duplicitousness is the shortcut method to kill your relationship — Anonymous
30. When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their 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
31. If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. — Bruce Lee
32. A lie may heal you for the present, but it can never lead to a happy future. — Anonymous
33. An honest foe is better than a deceptive friend. —Anonymous
34. One lie is enough to question all the truth. — Samaira Ansari
35. The strength of truth lies in love and the strength of love lies in truth. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
36. Lying is one of the simplest ways to ruin a beautiful relationship. — Anonymous
37. That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. — Amy Tan
38. Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime. — E.B. Spredemann
39. I never lie…At least not to those I don’t love. — Anne Rice
40. 7. The worst part is being lied to and cheated by the person who didn’t consider you to be his truth. — Anonymous
20 Other Lying Relationship Quotes
1. Every time you lie to me, it brings us a little closer to bidding farewell. — Anonymous
2. Just gonna stand there and hear me cry. Well, that’s alright because I love the way you lie.— Eminem
3. Anything is better than lies and deceit! – Leo Tolstoy
4. Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.– Steven Soderbergh
5. I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
6. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.– Winston Churchill
7. When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
8. A mistake is an accident. Cheating and lying are not mistakes, they are intentional choices – Zane Baker
9. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. — Mark Twain
10. Lying to the one who loves you is telling them that you don’t deem them worthy of your truth — Anonymous
11. Of all the lies I’ve heard, ‘I love you’ was my favorite.– Anonymous
12. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Robert Louis Stevenson
13. There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
14. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.– Denis Diderot
15. You must never lie to the one who trusts you and never trust the one who lies to you.– Anonymous
16. 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
17. Being single is better than being lied to and cheated on. — Anonymous
18. Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love. — Bonnie Eaker Weil
19. The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you. – Molly Ringwald
20. I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.– Barbra Streisand
