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Quotes About Lying

And he won her freedom by playing beautiful music,' Roland added. 'I think he played a lute. Or maybe it was a lyre.' 'Ach, weel, that'll suit us fine,' said Daft Wullie. 'We're experts at lootin' an' then lyin' aboot it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Lying in his dirty palm is a pale green stone.
~ Karen Connelly
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Se si parla di politica, di Dio o dell'amore, la gente mente e lo fa pure in modo noioso.Tutto ciò che ti serve sapere di una persona lo capisci dalla sua risposta alla domanda: "Qual è il tuo libro preferito?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When people are telling the truth, they don't feel doubted, so they don't feel the need for additional support in the form of details. When people lie, however, even if what they say sounds credible to you, it doesn't sound credible to them, so they keep talking.
~ Gavin de Becker
Brian Andreas Promise #1: Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.
~ Brian Andreas
I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.
~ Brian Haig
What I am wondering, said the Doctor, is where we are going to get another boat to go home in...Oh well, perhaps we'll find one lying about on the beach that nobody is using.
~ Hugh Lofting
Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.
~ Ian Mcewan
The smile of a deceiver is flawed, insufficient. But can we see these muscles resting there inert when there's so much local variation in faces, pads of fat, odd concavities, differences of bone structure? Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a deliberate liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.
~ Ian Mcewan
You're taking a nap? Come on, Kate, I need you for this fight. Stop lying around." "You must think you're funny." "Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far." "Everything I do, I learned from you, boy toy." "Boy toy?" Curran asked. "Would you prefer man candy ?
~ Ilona Andrews
You call that evening the odds? You demolished them. Demolished. He liked that. I left you one. I noticed. I promised to share, he told her. Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.
~ Ilona Andrews
People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
~ Jennifer Jason Leigh
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
~ Joyce Meyer
I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves.
~ AB de Villiers
The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.
~ Ana Navarro
False allegations of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and now lying each have their own chapter in the Trump takedown playbook.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
There's nothing effective against Trump. Trump is Trump. Trump is going to lie. Trump is going to act the way he's acting. No amount of reason, no amount of criticism, no amount of anything is going to work to change Trump's behavior. Putin is exactly the same way.
~ Masha Gessen
I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.
~ Don McCullin
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
~ Harry S Truman
There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
~ Jodi Picoult
-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.
~ Melissa Marr
Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.
~ Chelsea Handler
that the unfortunate thing about losing the trivia game was that they had been caught cheating and should have cheated better, I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing.
~ Suki Kim