Alphonse Daudet Quotes

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

You know what lies are for.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

I detest those who deceive me.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks.

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

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.

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

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