125+ Quotes About Lies In A Relationship

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Fabrication of lies usually start as harmless little cover-ups but these falsehoods become compelling reasons for never-ending problems. We bring you a collection of quotes about lies in a relationship to help you understand the uncomfortable situation and give you insight into different perspectives. The fundamental pillars of any relationship are transparency, honesty, and trust. When you find out that your partner has been beguiling or lying to you, you can’t help but feel betrayed and duped, which can give rise to communication problems in the relationship. If these are not resolved in time, you might face unfortunate scenarios. Honesty is crucial in any relationship, and lies can create big problems that are hard to fix. This collection of quotes shows why being truthful is important and how it helps build trust in your relationship. So, make the wrong things right by reading some of the thought-provoking quotes from our post.

Understanding The Consequences Of Lies In A Relationship

Lying has a profound impact on a relationship. Feelings of betrayal and mistrust are frequently triggered when someone is dishonest. Both partners may suffer emotionally as a result. Eventually, lying can weaken the basis of trust, leading to constant worry and unease in the partnership.

Lying Quotes For Him

When men lie in a relationship, they may not quite understand the damage it can do to a relationship and find it hard to deal with the emotional impact of lies. They might also feel pressured to stay strong, even while struggling with the problems their dishonesty has caused. Scroll down to know how lies and deceit can ruin relationships.

1. Just gonna stand there and hear me cry. Well, that’s alright because I love the way you lie.— Eminem
2. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying.–William Shakespeare
3. A single lie and misrepresentation in a relationship makes one question every truth ever there was in it.— Anonymous
4. When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
5. Anything is better than lies and deceit! – Leo Tolstoy
6. The worst part is being lied and cheated by the person who didn’t consider you to be his truth. — Anonymous

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7. Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.– Steven Soderbergh
8. I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
9. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.– Winston Churchill
10. Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magical effects.– Ricky Jay
11. Every sentence he uttered was like a brushstroke on a canvas of deception. —  Anonymous
    Tessa C. Ryan, a romance author, shares an intimate letter addressing her ex-boyfriend and his lies. She writes, “You destroyed us. You destroyed me. With your lies, deflections, and betrayals. Your justification of, ‘If I told you the truth, you wouldn’t understand.’ At least it wouldn’t make me cry. At least it wouldn’t make me doubt your every move. But with my first forgiveness under your belt, you continued to lie and lie… With taunts of, ‘You were never there for me.’ Your mantra whenever I tried to discuss the issue. With an ironic reminder that if I tried to even the score, we were done (i).”
12. Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.– Khaled Hosseini
13. I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. — Veronica Roth
14. For him, truth was his shadow, always following him but remained concealed. — Anonymous
15. Every time you lie to me, it brings us a little closer to bidding farewell.  — Anonymous
16. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. — Mark Twain
17. Lying to the one who loves you is telling them that you don’t deem them worthy of your truth — Anonymous
18. For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.– Bo Bennett
19. There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.– Jack Nicholson
20. Of all the lies I’ve heard, ‘I love you’ was my favorite.– Anonymous
21. It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.― George Washington
22. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Robert Louis Stevenson
23. Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.― André Malraux
24. There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.– Denis Diderot
26. Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.– Stephen King
27. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf
28. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. – Tim O’Brien
29. Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. – Michael Jackson
30. The hurt of a lie and betrayal stays forever in the heart.— Anonymous
31. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.– Samuel Butler
32. When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. — Criss Jami

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33. You must never lie to the one who trusts you and never trust the one who lies to you.– Anonymous
34. We’re going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us. – Beth Moore
35. A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.– Edgar J. Mohn
36. 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
37. Lying to your lover is one way of saying that you want to quit.- Anonymous

Lying Quotes For Her

A single lie or dishonesty can break the trust of your partner and destroy the beautiful bond you both have. Here are some meaningful quotes about lying in a relationship.

38. 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
39. If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. — Christine Feehan
40. Being single is better than being lied to and cheated on. — Anonymous
41. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. — Khaled Hosseini
42. Behind her sweet smile, lies danced and illuminated her darkest secrets. — Anonymous
43. In her plot, truth wore a mask, and deception played the leading role. — Anonymous
44. Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love. — Bonnie Eaker Weil
45. Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off. — Natalie Portman
46. If lying was a job, some people like you would have turned into millionaires.  — Anonymous
47. She wore a cloak of deception, concealing her true self in a halo of deceit. —Anonymous
48. Speaking the truth may hurt temporarily but telling a lie hurts forever. — Anonymous
49. The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.– Stephen King
50. I never lie…At least not to those I don’t love. — Anne Rice
51. 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
52. Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. — Dorothy Allison
53. The person who promises never to lie is already playing a game with you. — Anonymous
54. Never lie when a woman asks you something. Maybe she knows the answer already.  — Anonymous
55. Cheaters will only understand the pain when somebody cheats on them. — Anonymous
56. I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.– Barbra Streisand
57. “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
58. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.– Thomas Mann
59. She was an enchantress in true sense, making truths disappear in her magic of words. — Anonymous
60. The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you. – Molly Ringwald
61. People start to lie more once they start to care less.– Rain Cooper
62. “I don’t need to know everything but I do need to know that what you are telling me is true.”- Anonymous
63. No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth. — Sara Shepard

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64. Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.– Susan Sontag
65. 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
66. There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
67. Lying is just letting people believe what they want to be true. – Megan Whalen Turner
68. Words can lie. See beyond them. – Victoria Aveyard
69. Lying is done with words, and also with silence. — Adrienne Rich
70. 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 can strike a fatal blow to the relationship.

71. 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
72. 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
73. Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up. — Patti Callahan Henry
74. Beauty is often deceptive, so I prefer an ugly truth over a beautiful lie. — Anonymous
75. You didn’t just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke our future. — Steve Maraboli
76. No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it. — Rose Wynters
77. Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons. — Jeanne Birdsall
78. 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
79. Treachery is the easy way out only for a very short while. And then it becomes a torturous mountain to climb. —Anonymous
80. Once trust is broken, it’s like a cracked mirror. You can look into it, but the image will never quite be the same.
81. 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.
82. 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
83. 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
84. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. — Al David
85. The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. —Cheryl Hughes
86. What hurts more is not that you lied but that I don’t know how to trust you anymore. — Anonymous

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87. Lying is easy. But it’s lonely. — Victoria Schwab
88. 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
89. Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper. — Peter Singer
90. Once a cheater, always a repeater. — Melissa Edwards
91. 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
92. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. — Sacha Guitry
93. Duplicity does not just obscure the truth. Often, it obscures the love itself.¬ Anonymous
94. 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
95. A relationship is true only when there is no place for lies or craftiness between the two of us. — Anonymous
96. 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
97. 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
98. Even if you lie a hundred times, remember that lying is not worth losing the trust and respect of your near ones. — Anonymous
99. In any intimate relationship, the intimacy thrives on transparency and shrivels when the truth is veiled. — Anonymous
100. That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. — Amy Tan
101. Cheating only thrills those who cannot see the beauty in faithfulness. — Michael Bassey Johnson
102. Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime. — E.B. Spredemann
103. Infidelity is mentally, emotionally, and physically painful to the betrayed spouse. Be gentle with yourself as you heal.— Dr. Karen Finn

Lying To Your Husband Quotes

When a man finds out his wife has lied to him, no patching can completely heal the damage it has done. These quotes about lies are apt for this situation.

104. Duplicitousness is the shortcut method to kill your relationship — Anonymous
105. 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
106. If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. — Bruce Lee
107. A lie may heal you for the present, but it can never lead to a happy future. — Anonymous
108. An honest foe is better than a deceptive friend. —Anonymous
109. Cheating was easy, but impossible to take back.— Dean Osborne
110. One lie is enough to question all the truth. — Samaira Ansari
111. The strength of truth lies in love and the strength of love lies in truth. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
112. When your partner asks you to tell the truth, listen to him. He probably knows your deceptiveness already. — Anonymous
113. 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
114. 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
115. I heartily accept apologies, but not deception. — Anonymous
116. Don’t disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing’s wrong. — Scottie Pippen
117. ‘It was a mistake,’ you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. — David Levithan
118. Lying is one of the simplest ways to ruin a beautiful relationship. — Anonymous
119. 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

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120. Lying to your lover is the cruelest way in which you can show them you don’t care. — Anonymous
121. Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end. — Lauren DeStefano
122. For a relationship to flourish, it needs an affair. However, the affair needs to be with your own self … your inner self. —Lebo Grand
123. Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.— Mia Ashe
124. Lying to your husband is like drinking poison to ruin your own happiness. — Anonymous
125. 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
126. Your mendacity may comfort today and kill tomorrow. A truth hurts today and strengthens tomorrow. — Anonymous
127. I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned and broken, but somehow it still works. —Alcatraz Dey
128. 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
129. The saddest part of lying to your favorite person is to carry the guilt and shame that follows for a lifetime. —Anonymous

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