Jodi Picoult Quotes

I think the lies I make the most are in regards to my hopes and intentions for myself. As for lies I tell other people - I will certainly tell lies. When somebody is very ill and looks awful, and you tell them they look nice. Or if you just ate the last cookie, if someone asked me if I ate the last cookie, I would definitely lie about that.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

I can't abide small talk.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Fair words cost nothing.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.

Everybody exaggerates a little bit.

Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.