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...

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.

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....

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...

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...

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.

We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things that scare you the most about others; people who come from a background of lying are...

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

the only things in life that lying will get you.. is nothing, nowhere, and no one

…even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

It’s not lying when you do it to officers!

For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.

I am honest and enthusiastic, except when I’m lying down.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

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

The first rule in life is ‘everybody lies.’ Remember that and you’ll get a lot further.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.

…the truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric)

Who lies for you will lie against you.

If you had told me I’d be making 62 tomorrow, I’d say you were lying.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

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.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort

You can’t lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic!

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

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Lying is a thriving vocation.