Quotes About Lying

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Lying - remembering beauty in truth.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

I don't see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

Paradox: Pinocchio says "My nose will grow" if it doesn't he is lying but it didn't grow and if it does he is telling the truth and it did?

Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life.

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.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

You would never do anything like that, would you? my wife asked him. You would never hurt animals. Our son shook his head, looking offended by the question. He might have been lying, but my knowledge of his belief system, composed of equal parts off-kilter Far Side animal-centrism and a dark Captain Nemoesque contempt for humanity, inclined me to think he was telling the truth. Gigantic fish pulling the limbs from cruel little boys, that might be something you could get him to sign on for.

But I also knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the legality of the police's lying to a suspect if the lie would reasonably be seen as such by an innocent person.