Lying Quotes

The truth never hurts worse than finding out someone you care about lied to you.

~ Paula Stokes

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away? Alex wanted to know. You didn't see anything stra

~ Tamora Pierce

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

~ Robert Jordan

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio

I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.

~ Faith Erin Hicks

Lie long enough and eventually you'll believe yourself.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There’s an ethics to projection, an unhinged sense of honesty. Honesty is complicated. The truth is fascinatingly flexible. Lying is boundless. It knows no limits. People lie all the time. Lying is an instinct. It’s human nature. We lie to each other; we lie to ourselves. It isn’t right, but we do.

~ Kris Kidd

Through years of experience I’ve discovered that a liar will always look into his drink when telling a lie. But he doesn’t have a drink in a cab, and even if he did I’d have no idea as to whether he were looking into it or not

~ Karl Wiggins

Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.

~ Tony Schwartz

Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's personal opinion. It depends on the person, he said about the kind of lies they tell, what situation they tell them in, and how the lies are told. But at a certain point in their lives, all women tell lies, and they lie about important things. They lie about unimportant things, too, but they also don't hesitate to lie about the most important things. And when they do, most women's expressions and voices don't change at all, since it's not them lysing, but this independent organ they're equipped with that's acting on its own. That's why - except for a few special cases - they can still have a clear conscience and never lose sleep over anything they say.

~ Haruki Murakami

It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that’s exactly what psychological research finds (again and again). Repetition is one of the easiest and most widespread methods of persuasion. In fact it’s so obvious that we sometimes forget how powerful it is.

~ Jeremy Bean

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

~ Dr. Seuss

They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have they ever given us in return for the trust, the love--They actually say 'love'--we're supposed to owe Them? Can They keep us from even catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket we went on believing, because we wanted to. But the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can't believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth.

~ Thomas Pynchon

Maybe the problem with lying is that once you start faking it, it's impossible to tell where the make-believe you ends and the real you begins. It's hard to be who you are, but it's even harder to keep up the lie.

~ Autumn Doughton

First one tells a lie, then one believes it, then one becomes it.

~ Marty Rubin

I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In short Donald Trump lies compulsively in large part because of who and what he is - a coward. This is why Mike Brzezinski said recently, He brings nothing to the table.

~ Gizmo

Realistically, most people have poor filters for sorting truth from fiction, and there’s no objective way to know if you’re particularly good at it or not. Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That’s exactly how you look to them.

~ Scott Adams

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

~ Diana Vreeland

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.

~ Sam Harris

I don’t care what you meant to do. I really don’t.I only care about what you actually do. That’s important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.---,Grace.

~ Christian Kiefer

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

~ Rabih Alameddine

Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie.

~ Robert Black

I was good at fabricating the truth when necessary to protect someone, even myself.

~ Matt Abrams

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

~ Sue Grafton

The thing about me-the reason Erin can shoot me the wink-and-double-thumbs-up combo-is that I'm your typical good girl. I dress nicely, but I wouldn't say I'm at the bleeding edge of fashion. I always have my homework done on time. I say please and thank you and adults like me. Because of all these things, everyone always assumes that I'll do the right thing. No one ever thinks I would lie. But I do....

~ Goldy Moldavsky

He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.

~ Annie Barrows

As much as you might hate me, you can’t change the fact that I know you, Lily. And no matter how many times you say you’re fine and everything is good, you should remember that I know when you’re lying.

~ Rachel Spanswick

Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It’s often employed by liars.

~ John Jeremiah Sullivan

Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

~ Frank W. Putnam

When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.

~ Cortney S. Warren

There are no pessimists, there are only realists and liars.

~ Paul Virilio

Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth.

~ Gayle Forman

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.

~ Sue Grafton

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie.

~ Milan Kundera

I hate that question, “Are you okay?” It’s like asking someone if they think you look fat. You’re almost guaranteed to get a lie.

~ Hilary T. Smith

I would make up silver lies studded with shards of perfect detail like mosaic splinters, sharp and everlasting, the kind of tiny faultless detail that would make them all sure that what I said was true. I would have alibis. I would bring in other people and teach them a story, and rehearse it so carefully and for so long that soon they’d all start to believe that what they said was actually true.

~ Eleanor Catton

Okay, you must have forgotten that I know when someone's lying-it's one of my special, freaky priestess gifts, remember-the one you love to use until it becomes inconvenient for you? You can try to throw me off, but even half truths ring false with me.

~ Amy A. Bartol

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.

~ Marcel Proust

Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.

~ Sherman Alexie