Quotes about lies

Withholding the truth is lying.

But Mr. Slide did not know that he was lying, and did not know that he was malicious. The weapon which he used was one to which his hand was accustomed, and he had been lead by practice to believe that the use of such weapons by one in his position was not only fair, but also beneficial to the public.

Now a conjuror is I think a very pleasant fellow to have among us, if we know that he is a conjuror; — but a conjuror who is believed to do his tricks without sleight of hand is a dangerous man.

Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.

"Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power."

I soon realized that what are supposedly the worst things (lying, to mention only one) are hard to do only when you have never done them; but that each of them becomes, and so quickly! easy, pleasant, sweet in repetition, and soon a second nature.

Distrust grows out of lies. Wrong-doing grows out of distrust. Tragedy grows out of wrong-doing. But out of honesty grows love and love's so powerful, it'll be like a suit of armour, protecting Robert, protecting you.

We were sowing so much misinformation that some of it came back and bit us.

“We’ve never lied to you,” McKinley said.

“No,” Bella said, “but you’ve done a damned good job of not correcting any of my assumptions.”

Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.

I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.

“Is he dangerous?

“Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.”