Lyle Lovett Quotes

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

As of right now, I have two votes, mine and Jimmy's. I'm sure of Jimmy because he said he is gonna vote for me and Jimmy never tells a lie.

I try not to cheat on my boyfriends when I have them.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

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

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

I've never cheated on a woman.

Oaths are crutches, upon which lies go.

There are times when you should never give a cheater a second chance, but there also are exceptions.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

As a woman who experienced infidelity firsthand, I will always advise my girlfriends to only trust their husbands 95 percent and leave 5 percent for human error.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.