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

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.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets… Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of the truth hiding behind their endearingly smooth textures and tender soothing colours.Secrets could be so irresistibly beautiful…

A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

Alanna didn’t approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low...

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn’t matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

Everyone is honest in their own right.. people begin to lie only when they are compelled to do it for others.

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it ‘lying.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

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.

I lied,” I said. …”I know it,” he said.”Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it’s something.””I cant,” he said.”There aint anything to do? Not anything?””I didn’t say that,” Grandfather said. “I said I couldn’t. You can.””What?” I said. “How can I forget it? Tell me how to.””You cant,” he said. “Nothing is...

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.

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.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?”Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:”I’m a liar by vocation,” he shouted. “I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance.”Then more soberly, he added –...

I’d never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it.

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.

Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one’s wife – than a good reputation is in utterly...

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one’s pleasure, or one’s honour if the disclosure of one’s pleasure runs counter to one’s honour. One lies all one’s life long, even, especially, perhaps...

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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

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.

Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

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 buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.

See? That’s a lie!

Mom actually said that?” Cassie’s face shown with happiness. “She always hated my math!””Nah,” Martin said. “She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.

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.

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

I would make up silver lies studded with shards of perfect detail like mosaic splinters, sharp and everlasting, the kind of tiny faultless detail that would make them all sure that what I said was true. I would have alibis. I would bring in other people and teach them a story, and rehearse it so...

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he’s just lying to you

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

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.

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!

We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

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

Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren’t doing so well in class are at even higher risk – students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing students. In a paper exploring this sad connection, Adam speculates that the phenomenon is due to intrafamilial dynamics, which is to say,...

Do What?’ ‘Lie,’ he said. ‘Why do you fabricate these outlandish stories?”Well,’ I wanted to say, ‘there are those of us who create because all around us, things visible and invisible are crumbling. We are like the stonemasons of Babylon, forever working, as it says in Jeremiah, to shore up the city of walls.’I didn’t...

The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the last fifteen years of my life in the theater, I can attest that lying not only is sometimes expedient but...

Okay, you must have forgotten that I know when someone’s lying-it’s one of my special, freaky priestess gifts, remember-the one you love to use until it becomes inconvenient for you? You can try to throw me off, but even half truths ring false with me.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar