When to others it’s not lying. It’s privacy.

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

Honest I’m a liar. Believe me?

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.

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.

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.

We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must know that we cannot expect fair play.That is, perhaps, most crucial of all....

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had...

Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.

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...

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

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...

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

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...

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

Eyes aren’t good liars.

Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

Not only did I lie about lying, but I lied about lying about lying. And you’d better believe that’s the truth.

Because you’re a girl and when a girl says she’s fine, she’s lying.

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

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others’ advantage, and not our own; to...

I’ve learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.

Lies is lying the memory from the truth

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse...

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...

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, ‘You’re very good at lying.”Do I look like...

Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she’d probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it...

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

But Langer’s mendacity, and Parker’s possible cowardice, is less interesting and salient for our purposes than the question of whether or not Gilchrist, too, was lying: ‘I didn’t hear anything—absolutely nothing.’ These were his words...

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in...

When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your...

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don’t even hold it themselves.

I’d be lying to you if I said we didn’t talk about it, but it’s over. Things went smoothly yesterday. It’ll be the same thing today.

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.

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were...

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

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...

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