Lying Quotes

“Who lies for you will lie against you.”

“Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.”

“Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.”

“Lies is lying the memory from the truth”

“That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'”

“He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!”

“He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.”

“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.”

“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”