River Phoenix Quotes

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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.

Only lie about the future.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

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.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

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.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

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

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

Men lie all the time.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.