Monica Raymund Quotes

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I'm a really bad liar.

I hope you have not seriously taken amiss my certainly quite cowardly statements…. I wanted to remain free and could not do so without great duplicity.

[Richard Cheney is] an unabashed bender of the truth.

When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

I was a good liar as a child.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

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

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

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

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

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

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.