It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. —Jerome K. Jerome More about this quote Tags: truth lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. —Clare Booth Luce More about this quote Tags: lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lying is done with words, and also with silence. —Adrienne Rich in Women and Honor More about this quote Tags: silence speech lying honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. —O. Henry More about this quote Tags: beauty lying cheating simplcity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. —Nick Diamos More about this quote Tags: listening lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
His lying is not contingent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with. —Susan Forward in When Your Lover Is a Liar More about this quote Tags: relationships lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: honesty truth belief lying deceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: humor deception lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: knowledge belief lies lying intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: truth lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. —Homer Simpson More about this quote Tags: belief lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just — his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: justice wisdom learning intelligence safety gods childhood growth lying parental infallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically — for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist — but then what isn't? —Quentin Crisp More about this quote Tags: truth shock manners lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: truth belief lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. —Evan Esar More about this quote Tags: lying statistics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email