Terry Hayes Quotes

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied 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.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You never monkey with the truth.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

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

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

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.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

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.

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.

Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.