Outright Lies Quotes

#1. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#2. He'd listened to enough half-truths and outright lies from the outlaws he'd collected bounties on not to notice the slight hesitations in her speech or the exaggerated casualness of her posture. The woman was up to something. Heeding

Karen Witemeyer

#3. Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

David Limbaugh

#4. Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

George R R Martin

#5. The ritual denunciation of the so-called 'socialist' states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Well, Brekker, it's obvious you only deal in half-truths and outright lies, so you're clearly the man for the job.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Jean Rostand

#8. Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

Jane Mayer

#9. Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he'd fed them

Philip Reeve

#10. All the fakeness just rolls right off them, maybe because the nonstop sales job of American life has instilled in them exceptionally high thresholds for sham, puff, spin, bullshit, and outright lies, in other words for advertising in all its forms.

Ben Fountain

#11. Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

James Surowiecki

#12. The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.

Mary Tyler Moore

#14. When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.

Chuck Brown

#15. presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.

Gore Vidal

#16. With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.

Tobias Hill

#17. Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

J.G. Ballard

#18. Don't dump my stash. I hereby bequeath all manner of pleasure machines to you, my pasty, studious little friend.

Tessa Bailey

#19. Sadly, some folks don't live . . . they merely exist.

Frank Sonnenberg

#20. I'm a passionate architect ... I do not work for money

Peter Zumthor

#21. I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'

Demetri Martin

#22. The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

Douglas Coupland

#23. It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

Danielle Steel

#24. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.

T.I.

#25. Yet I, too, know how hard it is to peel back the veneer of your life, and to peek at the real. It's like

Jodi Picoult

#26. I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

Charles Bronfman