Georges Bernanos Quotes

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

What is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true. Truth has a harshness that alarms them, and an air of finality that collides with their incurable romanticism..

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

The world makes liars of us all.

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.