Lying quotations

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◆ I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

- Yogi Berra98

◆ Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

- Roman Payne98

◆ So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little na?ve, I feel!

- Eddie Izzard98

◆ The man lying on the sofa seemed friendly. But how friendly could he really be if he was a liar??

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

- Natalie Portman98

◆ To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

- Jacques Derrida98

◆ Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

- Sara Shepard98

◆ Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

- Patricia Briggs98

◆ If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

- W. Somerset Maugham98

◆ His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

- Dave Eggers98

◆ She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.

- Holly Black98

◆ No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

- Nancy Werlin98

◆ 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 Mitchell98

◆ Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.

- John Steinbeck98