#lying

"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."

"My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me."

"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."

"One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths."

"Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love."

"Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential."

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

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."

"Not only did I lie about lying, but I lied about lying about lying. And you’d better believe that’s the truth."

"I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world."

"Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still."

"Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything."

"There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul."

"...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick"

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."

"Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth."

"Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies."