Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

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.

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'm actually from Mt. Kisco, New York, which is in Westchester County, and when I auditioned for 'Dukes,' I told them I was from Snailville, Georgia, which doesn't exist, and I'd just graduated first in my class from the Georgia School of High Performance Driving, which also doesn't exist. But they bought it.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

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.

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

Great liars are also great magicians.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

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

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.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

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

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

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

I lied a lot when I was a kid. Somehow, I still do this today, but maybe in another way - not quite as ridiculously clumsily as I used to. But still, I think making music has a lot to do with it. One invents something that one can't possibly be. With songs, one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise.

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