I hardly ever talk—words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
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Quotes tagged ‘lying’
When does telling the truth ever help anybody?
— Todd Phillips, Stephen C. Chin, Jason Smilovic, Efraim Diveroli, Jonah Hill, amazon.com
The dictators of the world say that if you tell a lie often enough, why, people will believe it. Well, if you tell the truth often enough, they’ll believe it and go along with you.
Deliberately manipulative liars can also reveal their lie more overtly by reacting aggressively or defensively to their victims when called out for their lies.
It’s almost like I subconsciously don’t want to work anymore, so I’m trying to ruin my career. [I lied and told someone] I’m pregnant!...I did this to The New York Times. My publicist called me and was like, This is The New York Times. Be serious. And then I found myself talking about orgies in thre…
Lying to me is a bad idea.
They're my parents! I get to lie to them until I'm old and they're dead, and you don't get a vote!
Everyone lies at some point in their life. The important questions are where, about what, and how often?
Lying could not bring this woman into being, but it could allow me to forget — for stretches at a time, at least — that she did not exist.
No matter how hard we try to ignore it or deny it, eventually the lies fall away...whether we like it or not....But here's the truth about the truth: It hurts. So we lie.
As doctors, we're trained to be skeptical, because our patients lie to us all the time. The rule is, every patient is a liar until proven honest....Lying is bad. Or so we're told constantly from birth—honesty is the best policy, the truth shall set you free, I chopped down the cherry tree, whatever.…
Well, if you don't have any nice words I mean, anything nice to say, just you know, lie.
We didn't lie. We just avoided certain truths to manipulate you.
Dean: We're humans. And when humans want something, really, really bad...we lie. Castiel: Why? Dean: Because. That's how you become president.
Well, I've lied...a lot. I've stolen. I've lusted. And the other day I met this man—a nice guy, you know? And we had a really good chat...sort of like this. Then I slit his throat and ripped his heart out through his chest. Does that make me a bad person?
— Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker, Meg Masters, Nicki Aycox, imdb.com
Guarantee is a word that amateurs use in politics.
— Heidi Schreck, Wes Jones, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com
Let me tell you the truth; he doesn’t really miss you. Because if he did, he would actually do something about it.
And I’m sitting there and this lady comes up and goes, I want you children to know you can be anything you wanna be. You can be absolutely anything you wanna be. I’m like, 'Lady, why are you lying to these children?' Maybe four of them could be anything they wanna be. But the other 2,000 better lear…
You love to lie. And hate to be questioned about it.
Why shouldn’t you trust a man who claims he ‘wears the pants’? He probably lies about other shit, too.