Everybody lies.

Or at least that’s what Dr. House said.

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“Everybody lies.” Just three syllables, spoken flatly by Dr. Gregory House, a character who built his entire career on distrusting the surface of human behaviour. On House M.D., it’s not just a catchphrase — it’s his faith. A compass that points not north, but everywhere, because people rarely tell the whole truth.

When House says it, he isn’t being cynical for fun. He’s being observant. Lies are stitched into everyday life — some neat and invisible, others jagged and obvious. The grand ones often collapse under their own weight, but the small ones? They slip through unnoticed, unless someone bothers to trace the seams.

What makes House brilliant is not that he assumes lies exist — it’s that he looks closer, insists on the detail, the contradiction, the gaps in someone’s story.

A patient who swears they don’t smoke but smells faintly of nicotine.
A spouse who insists on devotion but can’t make eye contact.

He doesn’t accept the version of reality people offer him, because he knows that an offered reality is curated, polished, and most of the time softened.

But the point was always the same: human beings bend reality to make it…