Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

Men lie all the time.

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.

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

A lie cannot live.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

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

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

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.

I cannot accept fraud.

If you're lying, you're lying.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.