Sissela Bok Quotes

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

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

I don't like being lied to.

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

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

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.

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.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

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.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

If you're lying, you're lying.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

There are at least eighty liars in the convention.

... the most notorious liar in the country.

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

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.