Character Quote by Benjamin Jowett

People who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others.

— Anonymous

I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this…

— Quentin Tarantino

Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures,…

— John Hodgman

“Lying is such a central characteristic of life that better understanding of it is relevant to almost all human affairs.”

— Paul Ekman

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky…

— Peter Orner

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life…

— H. L. Mencken

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A lot of the characters I play seem to be lying to themselves in some way. They maybe present themselves as confident or good…

— Kyle Mooney

“many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction”

— Philip Pullman

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too.…

— Dashiell Hammett

“Suspicious people should be terrible lie catchers, prone to disbelieving-the-truth”

— Paul Ekman

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

— John Aubrey