Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

I don't like being lied to.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

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.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I'm a really bad liar.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Truth is often attended with danger

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.