Lying Quotes

Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5

~ Luana Ehrlich

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.

~ Brian Spellman

There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.

~ Zelda La Grange

Why didn't Jacob simply refuse to go along with this bold, obvious swindle? Again, Robert Alter's insights are invaluable. When Jacob asks, 'Why have you DECEIVED me?' the Hebrew word is the same one used in chapter 27 to describe what Jacob did to Isaac. Alter then quotes an ancient rabbinical commentator who imagines the conversation the next day between Jacob and Leah. Jacob says to Leah: 'I called out Rachel in the dark and you answered. Why did you do that to me?' And Leah says to him, 'Your father called out Esau in the dark and you answered. Why did you do that to him?' His fury dies on his lips. He sees what it is like to be manipulated and deceived, and he meekly complies with Laban's offer.

~ Timothy J. Keller

I try not to take things lying down, especially rectal thermometers

~ Josh Stern

Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.

~ Glenda Bailey-Mershon

Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.

~ Kiersten White

Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?

~ Kasie West

having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar’s paradise

~ Christopher Paul Curtis

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

~ Rex Stout

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

~ Norman Mailer

Liars are exhausting people.

~ Walter Kirn

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

~ J.b. Priestley

Well. Wolfe was judicious. You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many times by many people, including me. The right to lie in the service of your own interests is highly valued and frequently exercised.

~ Rex Stout

The lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile.

~ Embee

By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.

~ Sam Harris

Are you okay?” someone asked. “I’m fine,” I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin. “I have to admit, you’re getting better at lying, Tess Embers,” he said quietly. “However, I know you’re not okay.

~ Embee

That’s not necessary,” Mr. Bradshaw said, “although you are all perfectly welcome in the guest rooms upstairs, I won’t ask you to lie to your-” “Mr. Bradshaw.” Nathan grinned. “You’ve been asking us to lie to our parents from the moment we each set foot in this house. We’re spies; we’ll all find excuses to stay here. No one wants to leave the only place in the city where the Pentagon won’t dare enter. Not tonight. Not after what happened.

~ Embee

Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at easy. Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

~ Lemony Snicket

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

~ Stephen King

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

Do What?' 'Lie,' he said. 'Why do you fabricate these outlandish stories?''Well,' I wanted to say, 'there are those of us who create because all around us, things visible and invisible are crumbling. We are like the stonemasons of Babylon, forever working, as it says in Jeremiah, to shore up the city of walls.'I didn't say that, of course. What I did say was: 'I don't know.

~ Alan Bradley

There's a very thin difference between lying and breaking the promise.

~ Toba Beta

Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren't doing so well in class are at even higher risk - students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing students. In a paper exploring this sad connection, Adam speculates that the phenomenon is due to intrafamilial dynamics, which is to say, students' grandmothers care so much about their grandchildren that they worry themselves to death over the outcome of exams.

~ Dan Ariely

Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

~ Bergen Evans

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

~ Sam Harris

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

~ Douglas Malloch

A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.

~ Howard L. Salter

Tell me it's not true.He sighed. Fine. It's not true....And yet...Are you lying?He rolled his eyes. Of course I'm lying.Not cool. I muttered.Kyle shrugged. I didn't want you to start hyperventilating again. His hair fell over his eyes and he brushed it aside. I figured annoying you was safer than admitting anything.

~ Kathleen Peacock

Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them

~ Stacia Kane

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

~ Winston S. Churchill

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

~ Mark Twain

Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right? Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting caught. People just insert whatever they think you must be doing, and - having lied to themselves on your behalf - are disinclined to check up on you.

~ Nick Harkaway

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

~ George Hammond

Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

~ Andrew Levkoff

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

~ French Proverb

Truth is the safest lie.

~ Jewish Proverb