The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.''Do I look like a liar?''You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

— Milan Kundera

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

— Robert Jordan

The lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile.

— Embee

How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.

— Craig Groeschel

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

— Samuel Butler

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

— Hannah Arendt

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

— Ray Bradbury

...When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

— Barbara Kingsolver

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

— Sam Harris

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

— Steve Maraboli