Jodi Picoult Quotes

Plain lies are dangerous.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

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.

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

The average person tells a few white lies.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

You get so used to lying that after a while it’s hard to remember what the truth is.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.