Bobbie Gentry Quotes

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

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

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

I'm a really bad liar.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

Only lie about the future.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

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 know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

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

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.