Suzanne Collins Quotes

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

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

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

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

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

I don't like being lied to.

Politicians often lie.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

When a politician tells you something in confidence, always ask yourself: ‘Why is this lying bastard lying to me?’

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?

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.