Lying Quotes

Where there is SMOKE there is usually FIRE. Believe NONE of what you hear and HALF of what you SEE!

Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.

We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.

You can't lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic!

The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.(attrib: E. Tancarville)

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

Things'll get worse before they get better.

She's a princess and you're a jock, " he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. "And you're a brain. And you're a criminal. You're all walking teen-movie stereotypes.

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried.

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That’s why the best ones are the most tragic.

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.

If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?

Brastias. My friend.” Uh-oh, this couldn’t be good. “Do you lie to me?”“Uh . . . no.”“See? That’s a lie!

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.

No one answer is ever the answer.

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.

Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak.

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

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

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

Here it was, the first of many lies he’d have to come up with. “Bella threw a knife at my head.” He’d do better with the next lie.

Whatever we sayWe're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know...We are always telling each otherThe truthEven when We're lying

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

He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

People tell all kinds of lies to save their skins.

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

Is a lie still a lieif you say it pretty?

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.

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

[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

[N]o lie can live forever...

It's okay for you to lie but not for me to try

Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.

Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.

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

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

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place.

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.