Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

All who love have lied.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

For love deceives the best of woman kind.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

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.

There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.