Betty Smith Quotes

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

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

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.