Josephine Hart Quotes

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

The truth can't be hidden for long.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

I'm not one of those actors who lies about their age.

Veiling truth in mystery.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

I don't like people who hide things.