Jonathan Frid Quotes

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

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

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

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

People for the most part can smell lies.

Oaths are crutches, upon which lies go.

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

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

From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.

To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

Lies require commitment.

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.