Lying Quotes

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and ...

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligen...

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and as...

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act ...

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no...

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our ...

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusa...

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the...

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

My parents raised me to get things done, no matter what. They don’t care about rules, just appearanc...

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

Christina flashed a smile. "I shall ask a million questions of your purply-eyed so that Diana doesn'...

There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip," said Joe, after some rumination, "namely, that lies is l...

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into canni...

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would al...

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagin...

How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in t...

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all ma...

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying....

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Cli...

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same ...

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying...

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every...

The lie is a condition of life.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late becaus...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone...

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying ...

Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's p...

Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to b...

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of wha...

I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and...

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occ...

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good li...

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it it wasn't cool to listen ...

Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That'...

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility...

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lie...

More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, a...

People who say "no" right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying "...

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swi...

Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in c...

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is m...

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by ...

You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at yo...

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with...

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, ...

Children and fools always speak the truth.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

We all want to live in a world where we can make a difference... That's why Spider-Man fights the go...

To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vit...

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilder...

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and...

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment ...

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do no...

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it'...

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His fa...

It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. ...