Jodi Picoult Quotes

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

I don't lie," I lied.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.