Habitual Lying Quotes

And I, love, am a pathological liar.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

… a man well known for his congenital inability to tell the truth

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.