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 KunderaBound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
— Robert JordanThe lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile.
— EmbeeHow can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
— Craig GroeschelWe pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
— Samuel ButlerRevolutionaries 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 ArendtBut 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 KingsolverFalse encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
— Sam HarrisStop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
— Steve Maraboli