Quotes About Lying

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

I had lied so much lately that I was honestly surprised my pants weren't literally made of fire.

I stared at the black scar on the ground in front of me. From the photographs I could work out exactly where her face had lain. I was surprised to see that a small purple veld flower had grown there. To me it was beautiful.

Are you dying?" she asked. "It's prostate cancer. I have very good doctors. I don't think I'll die of this. Not very soon, anyway." "You lied then." "No Sunja, we're all dying." She felt angry with him for lying, but she felt grateful, too. She had loved him, and she could not bear the thought of him being gone from this life.

[Neuroscientists] haven't found a 'buy' button inside the brain, we can't tell whether someone is lying or in love just by looking at their brain scans, and we can't turn sinners into saints with hormones.

The truth does not hurt, but it cures the disease of lying.

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

I suspect, for example, that the dishonor that now shrouds Richard Nixon results not from the fact that he lied but that on television he looked like a liar. Which, if true, should bring no comfort to anyone, not even veteran Nixon-haters. For the alternative possibilities are that one may look like a liar but be telling the truth; or even worse, look like a truth-teller but in fact be lying. As

Her whole body was tired, but her mind had the jangly, wakeful feeling that sometimes came over her when she was lying in bed at night in Rochester.

Ianto lying on his back in the bog. Snake-silent and lizard-still.

pointing out that fifteen British warships were lying in wait for him outside Brest harbour.

Humans are social primates, and socialising with the rest of our species requires a fair amount of routine self-censorship and outright lying, which we dignify with names such as 'tact', 'courtesy' and 'politeness'.

George W. Bush, the son, talked of a war on terror, then brought precisely that to the Middle East, lying to the world about the pretexts for war while causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

When people say perhaps its cause theyre lying. Either they dont believe the thing theyre saying, or they do believe it only they dont want to admit they do.

Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.

eis a verdade: ninguém mente inteiramente ao mentir.

See you tomorrow," he said, instead. "All right." Then, impulsively, I asked, "Do you have a place to sleep tonight?" "Sure," he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don't know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

When necessity demands it, I'm an excellent liar. Not the noblest of skills, but useful. It ties closely to acting and storytelling, and I learned all three from my father, who was a master craftsman.

When necessity demands it, I'm an excellent liar. Not the noblest of skills, but useful.

More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts.