If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
—Rudyard Kipling
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
—S. E. Hinton
You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police. Everybody else you tell the truth to.
—Jack Nicholson
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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 in Split Second
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
—William Shakespeare
Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you'll see which one he is.
—Penelope Douglas in Falling Away
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
—A. A. Milne
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
—Mark Twain