Sam Yagan Quotes

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

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

Men lie all the time.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

In the end a lie is a lie.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.