Mia Goth Quotes

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

Advertising is legalized lying.

I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

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

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

Only lie about the future.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

… the most transparent liar I have ever met

Stop lying about my record.

... the most notorious liar in the country.

Tell them I lied.

He [Lyndon Baines Johnson] lies, even when he doesn’t have to.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

In my lifetime I have never seen such a volume of deceiving and dissembling.

A falsehood, to have its full and lasting effect, must contain a fraction of a grain of truth.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Liars ought to have good memories.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

You get so used to lying that after a while it’s hard to remember what the truth is.