Lying Quotes

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. ...

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude ...

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to someb...

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened...

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and ...

Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many t...

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then...

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a buste...

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implica...

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden h...

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a lia...

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put to...

By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Hones...

The opportunity to deceive others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance casts us ont...

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the o...

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A...

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business ...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falseho...

The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them...

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits....

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic afflict...

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

Realistically, most people have poor filters for sorting truth from fiction, and there’s no objectiv...

When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pre...

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacio...

Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacio...