Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

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

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

[Richard Cheney is] an unabashed bender of the truth.

I think people bend the truth all the time, unfortunately.

I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

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.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

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.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.