Bob Dylan Quotes

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

I don't lie," I lied.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

I know my lies are always wishes.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

Only the liar knows he's lying

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.