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“Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl

“Were you lying?"
"I never lie," he said piously. "About what?"
"The sand, the snake."
For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

“The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and sometimes I can figure out that it's not the truth and sometimes I don't know and never know, and sometimes just because he says it to me over and over again I am convinced it is the truth because I don't believe he would repeat a lie so often. Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry at me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves her or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.”
― Lydia Davis, Break It Down

“A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.”
― Howard L. Salter

“False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.”
― Sam Harris

“Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, The Chronoliths

“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Fiction may be about lying â€� on the surface, anyway â€� but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them feel.

And how we do that as authors is to put ourselves into our work, and make it mean something to us, so that it will mean something to the reader. That's what we should do. That's our job.”
― Stacia Kane

“You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape