Lies can open up the doors to imagination.
Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.
Don't trust a man who claims one a liar or a cheat, they will surely define those words of themselves.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only...
It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The...
The heart never lies
Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.
Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.
Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.
A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying...
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the ga...
Ronan said, I'm always straight.Adam replied Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
Truth is an outlaw in every country.
To get what we want we must be subtle as snakes; more deadly, more cunning, more patient, more mean. Think of the serpent, how it slithers through the garden. It's such a beautiful creature, slow and...
I don't mined being lied to, but what ever you do never betray me