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Quotes About Lying

I'm a realist, " I said. "Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.
~ Nicole Williams, Crash
I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
~ Molly Ivins
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
~ Monty Python
When it comes to lying, what one must consider is not the plausibility of the fib but the greed, fear, and stupidity of the receiver. One never lies to people; they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand and choose the level of self-delusion that fits their foolishness and moral turpitude. That's the secret. Oldest trick in the world.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When it comes to lying, what one must consider is not the plausibility of the fib but the greed, fear, and stupidity of the receiver. One never lies to people; they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand and choose the level of self-delusion that fits their foolishness and moral turpitude.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario. Uno nunca miente a la gente; se mienten a ellos mismos. Un buen mentiroso les da a los bobos lo que quieren oír. Ese es el secreto. —Eso
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario. Uno nunca miente a la gente; se mienten a ellos mismos. Un buen mentiroso les da a los bobos lo que quieren oír. Ese es el secreto
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. Listen
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Here I was, lying on a sidewalk in historical New Orleans, with my boobs hanging out of my dress, my hair coming down, my sandals on my arm, and a large tiger licking my face.
~ Charlaine Harris
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
~ Lois Lowry
People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.
~ Travis Bradberry
I would be lying I didn't mention I saw Dominick Cruz's performance at UFC 178 and was impressed by his dominating performance.
~ Raphael Assuncao
Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'
~ Michael Douglas
Ignorance of naturall causes disposeth a man to Credulity, so as to believe many times impossibilities: for such know nothing to the contrary, but that they may be true; being unable to detect the Impossibility. And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Meanwhile, back in the torture room, the cardinal is now being forced to bleed into a chalice and consecrate his own blood, not to God, but to Satan. They also cut off his big toe, and he is made to hold it up like a Host and say, This is my body, the keenwitted Angelo observing that it's the first time he's told anything like the truth in fifty years of systematic lying.
~ Thomas Pynchon
In some states doctors are now required to lie to their patients by giving them false or incomplete information about their legal options in pregnancy, or are compelled to make inaccurate statements about a disproven link between abortion and cancer or mental health.
~ Katherine Stewart
Our tremendous drive for social acceptance and toward conformity in our time is causing us to train our children to be a generation of young liars who do not even realise they are lying. We train our children to be subtly dishonest almost from the crib. "Shh... don't cry in front of all these people.
~ Keith Miller
I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
~ Kenneth Robert Livingstone
E se o telefone tocar diga que eu morri, que estou mortinho da silva, estirado no chão da sala com o coração na mão. Diga que retirei meu coração com a mão – ele estava doendo demais.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
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. Each
~ Gavin de Becker
I took a deep breath. "I'm sorry I lied, I like your Star Wars sheets, you're not that bad of a driver, and I swear on my Very Cherry lip gloss that I will never lie to you again.
~ Gemma Halliday
Curran. You're taking a nap? Come on Kate, I need you for this fight, Stop lying around. You sonovabitch. I rolled to my feet and grabbed my sword. You must think you're funny.
~ Ilona Andrews
Would you prefer some other woman takes these quarters?" There was no point in lying. "No." "Very well, then." "This will make things harder," she said. "Are you unfit for the challenge?" She glared at him.
~ Ilona Andrews