Pamela Meyer Quotes

The average person tells a few white lies.

People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

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 perhaps being economical with the truth.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

Many, many people exaggerate their accomplishments, blame their failures on others, and misrepresent reality in order to make themselves look better. This behavior is ubiquitous—sometimes intentional, more often subconscious. In ordinary life, we tolerate it, mutely or not, hoping that we are not as bad as the person whose lies we are listening to.

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

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

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

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

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.