Telling Lies Quotes

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.... Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies.

Mujib [Rahman], as you've seen, is a congenital liar. He can't help telling lies - it's something stronger than he.

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Im hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt peoples feelings, but then Ill blow it 10 minutes later.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up.  And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

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

So much of being a woman is telling lies

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there and he says to me in this ad, until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service. You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad, to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.