Anonymous Quotes

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

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.

People for the most part can smell lies.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

A lie cannot live.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

I'm a really bad liar.

From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.

Men lie all the time.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

I lied all my life.

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.