Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The best lies are always at least partially true.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Lies require commitment.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Look, [Hillary Clinton] is been proven to be a liar on so many different ways. This is just another lie.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.

Weaklings must lie.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

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

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

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