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Quotes About Lying

them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."*
~ Michael Pollan
With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.
~ Rosemarie DeWitt
There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it's climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there's another blatant lie. I think there's comedy in there somewhere.
~ Matt Walsh
I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.
~ Mark Thomas
Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you.
~ Dave Matthews
It's weird but it's amazing, and it's great to know people are thinking about you. It's a huge ego boost and anyone that says they don't love that is lying.
~ Jonathan Coulton
I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.
~ Lindsey Graham
New Rule: Stop lying to me about your pancake mix. The back of the box says 1 1/2 cups makes ten to twelve pancakes. Really? 'Cause I get four. Who's your cook, Jesus?
~ Bill Maher
A part of me, of course, was reminding myself over and over and over again that I should never have tried to lie to the higher angels of the Ephorate. Hubris, the Greeks called that. "A dumbshit move," might be a more contemporary way of putting it.
~ Tad Williams
You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation, they pass it on. its the secret ingredient the foundationfor a salesman's success. lie well and you make a fortune every day. your wife purrs like a kitten, and your children ealk tall with pride.
~ Tahir Shah
Eric's feelings are hurt. Women shouldn't say such things! They should say: 'I'll never, ever forget you! I'll never, ever stop loving you!' That's women lying plausibly out of respect for other people. Of course they'll forget. Everything is forgettable. In that lies salvation.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
I hated lying, though. That's probably why I was so bad at it.
~ Julie Anne Peters
In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
~ Junot Diaz
That's about it. In the months that follow you bend to the work. Because it feels like hope, like grace--- and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
~ Junot Diaz
because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
~ Junot Diaz
Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.
~ Justine Larbalestier
Who's the bigger liar? Me or them? Isn't lying about love the worst lie? Isn't that worse than anything I've ever done?
~ Justine Larbalestier
Always tell as much truth as you can when you're lying," he said. "Nothing deceives like the truth.
~ K.J. Parker
The question was, to what extent was he supposed to believe it? Of course, Gignomai had a special way of lying, which involved mostly telling the truth.
~ K.J. Parker
You sold us out, Clark. You gave them the power that should have been ours. Just like your parents taught you. My parents taught me a different lesson... lying on this street... shaking in deep shock... dying for no reason at all. They showed me that the world only makes sense when you force it to.
~ Frank Miller
In the fawning soul of the mob everything is justified by the victorious employment of force. It transfigures treachery, desertion, murder, lying, and any kind of rascality, turning them into wholesome necessities which the servile people accept and swiftly forget as a child does a bitter medicine.
~ Franz Werfel
Spengler] made peace with contemporary Germany, not with the Nazis, for I know of no one who hated them as he did, on lying down, in sleeping, and in rising up!
~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
What would you think if I told you that I wasn't an Allomancer?" Sazed asked. "I'd think that you were lying," Vin said. "Have you known me to lie before?" "The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
~ Brandon Sanderson