Alice Munro Quotes

Men lie all the time.

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

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

I can tell very quickly when people are lying.

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

No person can fool all the people all the time.

I lied all my life.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.