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

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

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

Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.

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

I’ve got to pee.

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

Mitch’s take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we’ve told? (‘Lives’ – the ‘v’ is silent.)

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go? Hide or shine?

After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, ‘I’m a liar, I’ll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That’s part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you’re going to do something, make sure to do it...

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

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

More fundamentally, I’m interested in memory because it’s a filter through which we see our lives, and because it’s foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

He turned to her – his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear...

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you; I lie that you might feel loved.

Not just in America. When I left my primary school, my father said, ‘Son, you are now a man,’ then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made.” Vik fought to keep his lips from twitching.

Ralon didn’t make anyone else put his tack away?” Alex wanted to know. “You didn’t see anything strange?” Alanna didn’t look up. “No.” It wasn’t strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?””Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…””Everythings going to be alright.

Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.

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

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend’s blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. “I tried to stop her.

No. It’s actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it’s okay even though it’s not. It’s better to tell the truth.

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

Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Honest I’m a liar. Believe me?

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!

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

Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?” Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely’s that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting caught. People just insert whatever they think you must be doing, and – having lied to themselves on your behalf –...

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Well.” Wolfe was judicious. “You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many times by many people, including me. The right to lie in the service of your own interests is highly valued and frequently exercised.

Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it’s lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. “You’ve been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

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

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.

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

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

Lies don’t fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you’re left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It’s for their own good.

I’m sorry,” she said humbly. “I haven’t wanted to lie to you.””I should hope so. You’re the worst liar I’ve ever met.” He thought about it for a moment, then added, “–or the best. Now I’m all confused.

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.