Quotes About Lying

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

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.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

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

I'm lying. He tasted the words. If it's true that I'm lying then I'm telling the truth…The

If you're going to lie, at least be good at it.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I'm lazy and lying requires too much effort.

By the time the arachne caught up with them in Kejesli's quarters, Maggy found layli-layli calulan in the midst of an elaborate lie. Like Maggy, layli-layli took advantage of Kejesli's lack of knowledge of her culture, a lack Maggy did not share. Nothing new in technique, Maggy noted, but she recorded it for her growing file on lying, for its style and for its purpose, which she hoped might become clear.

It's acting, not lying, so I will not be sent to hell for saying these sorts of things.

and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

George W. Bush spoke to the camera, his face so decisively earnest that it was clear he was lying, his button eyes lit up with amateurish subterfuge. Only truly great men can be adept at shameless lying, Joshua thought. This dude was straining to the point of snapping.

TRUTH is the true victim today. Truth has become the politically incorrect "No-No" born from fear of government, school peer and/or family pressures and penalties, or just plain evasion, lying, cheating, and/or corruption-laden behavior on personal and business levels.

It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.