James Murphy Quotes

Only lie about the future.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

A lie never lives to be old.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

People for the most part can smell lies.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

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

You get so used to lying that after a while it’s hard to remember what the truth is.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

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

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

A lie cannot live.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

I was a good liar as a child.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.