When You Know They Are Lying Quotes

#1. Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how."
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't love you."
"The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.

Tarryn Fisher

#2. P.J. said, "That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know."
"Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it."
"Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. The funniest thing is when somebody says "Look I've no idea who you are but my friend said you are on a show and I just wanted to introduce myself" you know that they are lying! Those people can just get out of my way.

Matthew Perry

#4. If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Bruce Lee

#5. Best friends always know when the other's lying.

Wendy Mass

#6. There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

Nelson Mandela

#7. This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word ... that is what has upheld the morale of our people, to know that in the end good will prevail.

Desmond Tutu

#8. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

James A. Baldwin

#9. Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

Elaine Stritch

#10. He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.

Ellen Hopkins

#11. As soon as I looked at Alphonse's face, I knew that he was dead. I had the strange feeling that I was dead myself. It felt as if I were lying at the bottom of a grave and earth was being thrown on me. When death takes someone you know, he holds you and whispers all his secrets in your ear.

Heather O'Neill

#12. I don't believe this. This is utter shit!" I yelled.
"Does it look like I'm lying?" Steven asked.
I rolled my eyes at his incredibly stupid question, "I don't know. Let me look at you with my x-ray vision to see through this stupid blindfold and I'll get back to you.

Sara Massa

#13. I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.

David Weigel

#14. I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.

Ted Cruz

#15. To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

Confucius

#16. We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

Thomas Sowell

#17. Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.

Harold Klemp

#18. Sam: "Don't think I don't know that you're lying there planning deaths."

Jared: "What can I say? I have weird hobbies.

Suzanne Wright

#19. I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.

Peter Mandelson

#20. Just so you know," I begin, "when they say 'Once upon a time' ... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Jodi Picoult

#21. I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring.

William Gaddis

#22. People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to know what Kissinger looks like? Well, the photograph tells us one version; I'm trying to tell it also, but differently.

Leon Golub

#23. He doesn't scowl, but his mouth is so tense that I know he's angry with me. 'Don't be an idiot,' he says.
'An idiot?' Is he talking about the blanket?
'You were lying.

Veronica Roth

#24. Maybe it's not really lying if you barely know you're doing it. It should be true. It's the way it should be, in an ideal world.

Harriet Lane

#25. Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,

Tim Waterstone

#26. I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure.

Sue Grafton

#27. I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.

Adam Mansbach

#28. You know what lies are for.

Sylvia Plath

#29. When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

Jay McInerney

#30. My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

Alicia Witt

#31. Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie ... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

Francis Ford Coppola

#32. All to prove to her I'm not lying and I'm not sleeping around on her. She's a vagina with arms, and legs, and two faces. Do you know what it's like to have your penis ridden by a two-hundred thirty pound woman?" He stood now, looking traumatized.

Lucian Bane