114 quotes found
“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?”
“having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liars paradise”
“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.”
“Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.”
“Liars are exhausting people.”
“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 highl...”
“The lie detector didnt react to anything I said, but I wouldnt dare smile.”
“Are you okay? someone asked. Im fine, I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin. I have to admit, youre getting better at lying, Tess Embers, he said quietly. However, I know youre not okay.”
“Thats not necessary, Mr. Bradshaw said, although you are all perfectly welcome in the guest rooms upstairs, I wont ask you to lie to your- Mr. Bradshaw. Nathan grinned. Youve been asking us to lie ...”
“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.”
“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 crumblin...”
“False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.”
“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 reade...”
“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 c...”
“Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!”
“Lying is easy. But its lonely.”
“And this wasnt lying, not really. It was leaving out.”
“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
“The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the wei...”
“The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healin...”
