Lying Quotes

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

~ James Rozoff

Indeed, to this day, I think if you blame everything on the government, you're not just wrong, you're being reckless. It's as silly as blaming everything on the Freemasons, or the Illuminati, or insert-bad-guy-here. But I do believe that someone must ask the hard questions, especially of our elected officials as well as powerful men who become members of so-called secret societies. Remember: Governments don't lie. People lie. And if you want the real story, you need to find out more about those people.

~ Brad Meltzer

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

~ Holly Black

Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.

~ Gary Hopkins

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

~ Donald L. Hicks

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

~ Gustavo Gus Larsen

The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the last fifteen years of my life in the theater, I can attest that lying not only is sometimes expedient but can save one's career.

~ Amanda Dewees

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

~ Kenneth Eade

When to others it's not lying. It's privacy.

~ Brian Spellman

Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.

~ Brian Spellman

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's honour. One lies all one's life long, even, especially, perhaps only, to those who love one. For they alone make us fear for our pleasure and desire their esteem.

~ Marcel Proust

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits.

~ Marcel Proust

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

~ Orson Scott Card

The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.

~ Sean Patrick Brennan

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

~ Jennifer Crusie

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

~ Jennifer Crusie

Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

~ Dianna Hardy

Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she'd probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it started.

~ Karen Foxlee

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.

~ Gary Hopkins

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

~ William Boyd

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

~ Rich Disilvio

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

~ Chelsea Handler

Who lies for you will lie against you.

~ Bosnian Proverb

Lying isn't something you should be proud of, but be grateful if you've gained a talent for doing it correctly.

~ Kate C. Conner

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.

~ Norman Mailer

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

~ Steven Pressfield

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

~ Derrick Jensen

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

~ Chuck Klosterman

I was so mad, I reached into the drawer for her fake sushi eraser and put it in my pocket. Serves her right for being such a big, fat, Eggo-scarfing liar.

~ Sarah Darer Littman

A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.

~ Steven Magee

Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

~ Mary Karr

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born.Me, I’m a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or three digits after the decimal, that I am even willing to allow for degrees of agreeableness in my own son. In other words, Franklin: I leave the $17.

~ Lionel Shriver

The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.

~ Hayley Solich

We all want to live in a world where we can make a difference... That's why Spider-Man fights the good fight. Or Captain Marvel. Or me. Or... There are a lot of us. And we don't all wear masks these days. Iron Man went public. So did Captain America. Others. Probably because it's harder to keep secrets in an internet surveillance age. But I think some of it, too, is that the ethical paradox can wear you down. No one on the white-hat side has ever hidden his or her identity with less than noble intent: to make the fight about something bigger than us. To represent a greater justice, where the focus can be on right and wrong... and not on whether the bad guys will exact reprisal on those close to us. And sometimes you have to lie... because you can justify a lie if lives are riding on it. Even as you fight for, as the saying goes, truth and justice... even if you're a lawyer who has sworn to live by the truth... you willingly bear false witness.

~ Mark Waid