Carly Simon Quotes

When a guy says "I have no idea what you're talking about" it means "I'm thinking of exactly what you're saying I did while I lie to you."

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Lying is one of the techniques of politicians .... They are economical with the truth.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it's climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there's another blatant lie. I think there's comedy in there somewhere.

Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

I think all politicians lie.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Advertising is legalized lying.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Mr. Trump regularly lies and, when confronted with contrary evidence, he lies louder.