Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. 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.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

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

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

… the most transparent liar I have ever met

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

Liars ought to have good memories.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

The best lies are always at least partially true.