Laura Schlessinger Quotes

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

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

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

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

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.

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.

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

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

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

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.

If you're lying, you're lying.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

I'm a really bad liar.

The average person tells a few white lies.

A half truth is a whole lie.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

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

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

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

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.