Michael Finkel Quotes

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

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

I'm a really bad liar.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

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.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

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

Men lie all the time.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

A lie cannot live.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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

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.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

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

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

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.

I don't like being lied to.