#lying

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is. ↗

— Nancy Farmer

#acting

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

— Al Pacino

#lies #lying #truth #acting

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. ↗

— Rachel Simmons

#bullying #peers #culture

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#father

But mothers lie. It's in the job description. ↗

— John Green

#mothers #mother

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#lies #lying #statistics #truth #truth

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#lies #lying #silence #truth #lie

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#hunting #lying #people #war #elections

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#descriptive #flying #prose #writing #description

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#lying #deception