Lying Quotes

The truth never hurts worse than finding out someone you care about lied to you.

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything stra

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

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.

Two half truths don't make one truth.

I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie.

I was good at fabricating the truth when necessary to protect someone, even myself.

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

Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It’s often employed by liars.

When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.

I hate that question, “Are you okay?” It’s like asking someone if they think you look fat. You’re almost guaranteed to get a lie.

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

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

In some situations lying can also be considered as a good thing, at least for you anyway.

Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5

There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing

I try not to take things lying down, especially rectal thermometers

Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.

Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.

Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?

having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar’s paradise

Liars are exhausting people.

She lied to me today, " Archie said."A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

The lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile.

Are you okay?” someone asked. “I’m fine, ” I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin. “I have to admit, you’re getting better at lying, Tess Embers, ” he said quietly. “However, I know you’re not okay.

Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.

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

There's a very thin difference between lying and breaking the promise.

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

Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

Truth is the safest lie.

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

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

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

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

Peter said Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?... And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost.