2,241 Quotes About Lies

When you lie, it makes you feel in charge of your life. Telling lies is very seductive to orphans. I know because I tell them, too. I love to lie. When you lie, you feel as if you have cheated fate - your own, and everybody else's.

I judge the government by how they have presented themselves to me: Scallywags.

A nasty virus for a nasty President.

...when a man blends truth and falsehood skillfully in one comprehensive statement, it is difficult to tell the veracities from the fibs.

I got to the point where I stopped asking questions because I didn't want to be lied to. Abuse confuses you like that... Instead of walking away from the liar, you find ways to deal with the lies.

The most important thing you can do to avoid misjudging the importance of something is to avoid isolated figures. Never, ever, leave a figure alone. Never believe that a figure can be significant on its own. If you are presented with a figure, always ask At least one more. Something to compare it to. Be especially careful with large figures. Funny, but figures that exceed a certain size, if not compared to something, always seem large. And how can you not be important something big?

One can appear consistent to others only if one lies about one's true feelings.

But my point is I get how corrosive lies become. I understand the need to be able to live with yourself, to not have something lurking back in the dark of your mind, stopping you from being at peace. Are you going to be able to live with that?

With a deep breath, I lied to myself one more time; Sean’s death wasn’t my fault.