It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

(E)ach generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup -- if any.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

Everybody lies about sex.

Behind every mystery lies another mystery.