Quotes About Lying

We can't just leave him lying on a plank," she said to Nicko. "I don't see why not," said Nicko, "except I suppose he's polluting the Mott.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was.

The public don't want prisoners lying about being idle.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

I remember being a teenager and saying, 'Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.' And people saying, 'You need to be a good liar - are you a good liar?'

I put my mother through a lot when I was a teenager. I used to lie a lot. Now, we talk all the time.

The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions - not even executive orders, executive actions - and proclamations.

Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it. This is not quite so bad as it sounds, as I am a decent, civilized, likable guy. So, shading my eyes against the blue and fiery afternoon, I began searching for ways to convince the authorities of this. Lying, I decided, was probably best.

By appearing to regard the city's interests, or its freedom and its empire, as immeasurably more important than justice and, indeed, as the most important of all concerns, Diodotus succeeds in making himself trusted. And this success is dependent, of course, upon lying and deception.

Olympus, of course not! If you are to be a politician, your natural medium is lying. Surely your agent has explained that?

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

She imagined herself lying in the vegetable tray, perhaps, while Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni leaned against the icebox. It would be a refreshing alternative to the heat.

By the time you're his Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

The founding fathers had the right idea. They never envisioned professional politicians. They wanted citizen legislators, leaving their farms for a few years to serve their fellow man. A civic responsibility like jury duty. But under our current system, you almost have to be a megalomaniac to have interest in entering the sewer that is politics. And success in this realm requires that backstabbing, shamelessness, lying, and manipulation become an art form.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

How many wicked intentions climb aboard a pure and innocent phrase, after it is already on its way! It is enough to make one suspect that lying is, many a time, as involuntary as breathing.