Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

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.

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.

In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

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...

We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Everybody hates lies even the liars themselves

Lying isn’t something you should be proud of, but be grateful if you’ve gained a talent for doing it correctly.

Why would you tell us the truth? If Christina really wasn’t here, you’d tell us she was, to stall us from finding her. If James taught us one thing, it’s how to detect a lie....

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

…when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it’s...

On average, women are better liars than men. But the best liars are men, because politicians are still predominantly men.

Right, except I’m not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

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

The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he...

I believe in my mask– The man I made up is meI believe in my dance– And my destiny

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

I was so mad, I reached into the drawer for her fake sushi eraser and put it in my pocket. Serves her right for being such a big, fat, Eggo-scarfing liar.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

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...

The traffic warden looked up. “This your car?” “It is,” said Skulduggery. The traffic warden nodded. “Very nice, very nice. But you can’t park here, day or night.” “I wasn’t aware of that.” “There’s a...

And once when we were walking on Bredon Hill, we met a bedraggled and exhausted fox. ‘Oh, poor thing,’ Jack said. ‘What shall we do when the hunt comes up? I can already hear them....

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Talking is not easy. Talking intends to convey what you mean. Lying is easy, not talking. When one lies, one doesnot care, and that’s the easy part.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren’t really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

They weren’t lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn’t change the facts.

Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn’t easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if...

If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

You’ve been asking us to lie to our parents from the moment we each set foot in this house. We’re spies; we’ll all find excuses to stay here. No one wants to leave the only...

By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn’t require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: “I see you are looking at my face. Please be...

Liars are exhausting people.

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.