Quotes tagged ‘lying’

(113 total)

“I swear I wasn't lying, I was just writing fiction with my mouth again.”

“Remember that time I said I thought you were cool? I lied.”

“We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.”

“Clearly, he [President Bush] lied. Now if he is an unconscious liar, and doesn't realize when he's lying, then we're really in trouble.”

— Al Sharpton, washingtonpost.com

“Frequency of use of words like ‘I ’ or ‘me’ have been associated in previous studies with lack of forthrightness.”

— Ephrat Livni, qz.com

“The next time someone tells you to watch your language, feel free to tell them to fuck off.”

— Ephrat Livni, qz.com

“I don't do well when people lie to me.”

— Kristine Huntley, Violet Adams, Liza Koshy, imdb.com

“When you do not keep your agreements then lie to cover them up, you create little messes all over your life.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“OK, look. We've never worked together on a lie. Now, you don't understand how I work. I have a certain way of working. Jerry and I have worked together a few times. He knows how I work. It's not a personal thing, y'know? We're just trying to come up with the best possible lie. That's what this is al…”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Come on! I know you're there, laughing at me. Laughing and lying and laughing.”

— David Mandel, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“It's not a lie... if you believe it.”

— Carol Leifer, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“I lie every second of the day. My whole life is a sham!”

— Peter Mehlman, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Don't lie. Tell one lie, then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.”

— Meyer Lansky, books.google.com

“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”

— Alfred Nobel, en.wikiquote.org

“Last night I slept like an attorney. First I'd lie one side, then I'd lie on the other.”

— ArabJew, reddit.com

“I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.”

— Spiro Agnew, books.google.com

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love...”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

“No one forgets the truth – they just get better at lying.”

— Richard Yates, amazon.com

“I am ready to kill for the sake of my cause; wouldn't I lie for it?”

— Yasser Arafat, books.google.com

“It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.”

— Marcel Proust, amazon.com