Norman Mailer Quotes

I'm a really bad liar.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You never monkey with the truth.

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

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.

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

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

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

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Oaths are crutches, upon which lies go.

I didn't lie. I only didn't elaborate on every detail of the truth.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.