Ian Harding Quotes

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things to be a certain way even though they aren't, and that's one reason he lies. There can also be a conscious manipulative element to it. When he put forward, and politically thrived on, the falsehood of President Obama's birth in Kenya, outside the United States, he was manipulating that lie as well as undoubtedly believing it in part, at least in a segment of his personality.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

There's a certain type of sociopathy to many schemers.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with.

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!

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.