Patricia Highsmith Quotes

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.

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

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

You know what lies are for.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

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

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.