Lying Quotes

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Criss Jami

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Clint Eastwood

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Sara Shepard

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Chuck Klosterman

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Al Pacino

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

The question takes me through the spectrum of human emotion and psychology, to the darkest, recesses of the human heart where hypocrisy and insincerity duel. Yes it is! There are times when it is perfectly ok to tell a lie, and given the precise circumstances, expected of the noble being.

Peyton Dracco

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position.Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.

Alexander McCall Smith

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

David Mitchell

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Winston Churchill

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Neal Shusterman

In thy foul throat thou liest.

William Shakespeare

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

Isabel Fonseca

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

S.E. Hinton

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset

Criss Jami

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

A.W. Tozer

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Alexander McCall Smith