Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.
Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.
If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.
Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.
As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.
I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
