The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

I don’t think anybody’d remember and certainly do know everybody’d lie. The reason I’m so bitter and, as I said, ‘in anguish,’ nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody’s begun to lie and...

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Tell me it’s not true.”He sighed. “Fine. It’s not true.”…And yet…”Are you lying?”He rolled his eyes. “Of course I’m lying.””Not cool.” I muttered.Kyle shrugged. “I didn’t want you to start hyperventilating again.” His hair fell...

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he’d lie then, too.

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

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...

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.

Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

I always look like I’m lying. I was born with a politician’s face. You’ll know I’m in love when I have a Vote For Me look in my eyes.

See? That’s a lie!

Lying for lying’s sake is the inspiration behind all great art

Bella threw a knife at my head.” He’d do better with the next lie.

The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.

But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.

At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which...

There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

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...

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don’t need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen...

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

Don’t forget that we lawyers, we’re a higher breed of intellect, and so it’s our privilege to lie. It’s as clear as day. Animals can’t even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among...

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

Lying didn’t feel good; it just felt familiar.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it’s too weird to imagine people who aren’t casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5

Were you lying?””I never lie,” he said piously. “About what?””The sand, the snake.”For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!… except of course when they are alone.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that’s why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She’d been through too much, between my siters-I...

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Why are you lying to me? I’m so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can’t handle it?

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...

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.

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

Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It’s about using those lies to say something true and real. It’s about showing...

Actually,” said Jace, “I prefer to think that I’m a liar in a way that’s uniquely my own.

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

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.