Quotes About Lying

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Is Understatement 101 a course in medical school? Of course. It's the prereq for Lying Through One's Teeth.

There are two reasons to not tell the truth -- because lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If a person acts like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We promote pretense and lying as a cultural way of life. Living this way causes an inner split. It teaches us to hide and cover up our toxic shame. This sends us deeper into isolation and loneliness.

Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If people act like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We promote pretense and lying as a cultural way of life. Living this way causes an inner split. It teaches us to hide and cover up our toxic shame. This sends us deeper into isolation and loneliness.

Like most incurable fibbers, she had an extravagant regard for the truth, which she expressed by sending up signals meant to indicate that she was lying.

Rejection doesn't hurt, expectation does. Lying doesn't kill, denial does. Forgetting doesn't heal, forgiveness does.

Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it's really no fun lying to them anymore

Lying is a character flaw. It destroys trust. It does not matter how small the lie is. A person who will lie about the small things, lies about the big things.

I can't act. I can't lie.

If you fear and you don't admit it, that's when you're lying to yourself.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.

Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

I was good at two things, athletics and lying.

If somebody tells you that after being champion you're not going to miss the attention, he's lying to you.

I'm always nervous before a fight, any fighter that says they're not is lying.

What you fear is embarrassing yourself. Anyone who says they don't fear that is lying.

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

Right. We all fear death to some extent. Those who claim otherwise are lying to themselves. Shallow people." "People with their nicknames on their license plates.

Poetry is a kind of lying, necessarily. To profit the poet or beauty. But also in that truth may be told only so. Those who, admirably, refuse to falsify (as those who will not risk pretensions) are excluded from saying even so much. Degas said he didn't paint what he saw, but what would enable them to see the thing he had.

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.