Quotes on “lying”

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

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

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

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

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

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