Not only did I lie about lying, but I lied about lying about lying. And you’d better believe that’s the truth.

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.

Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.

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

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.

On average, women are better liars than men. But the best liars are men, because politicians are still predominantly men.


Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.

I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it.

It’s going to be okay, Eric," Urte said, helping me sit up. I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours.” (Eric.)

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.