Lie By Omission Quotes

#1. [T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Aminatta Forna

#3. Making love - having sex - with James had been like discovering a lie of omission. She had become more aware of things because of their pronounced absence.

Delphine Dryden

#4. Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Robin Hobb

#5. A lie by omission is just as bad as a lie by commission.

Elizabeth A. Reeves

#6. I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.

Gillian Flynn

#7. A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

Josephine Hart

#8. As I had been forced to learn at a very young age, there's no better way to mask a lie - or at least a glaring omission - than to wrap it in an emotional outpouring of truth.

Alan Bradley

#9. The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#11. Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

Julianna Baggott

#12. And then we turn 18 and even though we never had an original thought we have to make the most important decission of our lives.

Jay Asher

#13. Yesterday was good, but let us dream and work hard to make tomorrow even better.

Debasish Mridha

#14. We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

Charles Kettering

#15. He manages a sad smile. An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It's a manipulation.

Victoria Schwab

#16. that's a pretty big lie by omission

Carrie Jones

#17. Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

Emily Giffin

#18. If the gods cannot recognize your names," she warned, "they will never hear your prayers.

Michelle Moran