Lying Quotes

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Know when to lie to your kids.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

I have no room for monsters and cowards claiming to be something they’re not, who lie to get what they want.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.