“A person who engages in pathological lying may accuse their partner of fibbing; a needy spouse may call their husband ‘clingy’ in an attempt to depict them as the one who is dependent; a rude employee may call their boss ineffective in an effort to escape the truth about their own productivity.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“A manipulator may say yes to a request or make a commitment to you, and then when the time comes to follow through, they conveniently forget they ever said anything.”— Barrie Davenport, liveboldandbloom.com
“Emotional manipulators will tell you what you want to hear, but their actions are another story. They pledge their support, but, when it comes time to follow through, they act as though your requests are entirely unreasonable.”— Travis Bradberry, entrepreneur.com
“If you’ve consistently caught your partner in lies, particularly damaging lies, you can bet there are plenty of lies that you haven’t found out about. Big red flag.”— James J. Sexton, huffingtonpost.com
“Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“She looks strong. But she doesn’t feel strong. She feels like she’s living a lie, like everyone gives her more credit than she deserves.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”— Max Brooks, amazon.com
“Never lie. Ever. Don’t lie about your height, age or weight: you’ll be found out soon enough.”— Ashley, eharmony.com
“Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.”— Steven Erikson, amazon.com
“O you who have believed, if there comes to you a wicked person with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful.”— 17:32 (Surah al-Isra), amazon.com
“Someone said to me, 'You’re too pretty to be single.' I said, 'No, I’m too pretty to be lied to, cheated on, and played with.'”— Anxiety, twitter.com
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”— Dorothy Allison, amazon.com
“Pretending to like the same things he does. You might just nod along when he says he likes a particular band but there will be a point when he’ll want your opinion on one of their not-so-famous songs and you’ll just want to grab your bag and run.”— Ainee Nizami, idiva.com
“Being insincere. Saying things for the sake of it and wheeling out the same old compliments that you do for every person that you approach are likely to be seen through.”— NATALIE, baggagereclaim.co.uk
“You can't protect the public by lying to them.”— Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com
“The truth is out there. But so are lies.”— Scott Kaufer, Chris Carter, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com