Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

Remember what I said when I led to Omar and the queen?” I bobbed my head, unable to look away from his jewel-like eyed, shining in the darkness…so much like Chorda’s. “That was the lie....

When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I’m upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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

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...

Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing

I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do...

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

As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I’d keep the...

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

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

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.