Bob Greene Quotes

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

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.

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

I lied all my life.

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

I don't use the word 'lying' easily.

One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

I don't like talking about cheaters.

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.