Telling Lies Quotes

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I'm terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I tell the truth where it's the ethical thing to do, but in terms of entertainment, there's a certain fun and enjoyment that can be added to the experience by a few judicious lies.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.

McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

When I became press secretary my father sent me a telegram and said, "Tell the truth if you can and if you can't tell the truth, don't tell a lie." That became very difficult to do.

We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Kejriwal's only mantra is to tell lies and talk forcefully and repeatedly, but Delhi cannot develop with telling lies.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

Only one thing is worse [for a CIA Agent] than having no sources, and that is to be seduced by sources telling lies.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.