"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…" Ayn Rand

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker


“If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself."
― Shannon L. Alder

“Lying is easy. But it’s lonely...Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back."― Victoria Schwab

"Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.”
― Sam Harris, Lying

"But the sound of despair is never pleasant; it sounds suspiciously like lying.”
― Joseph Roth

I am grateful for many things. I never acquired a taste for lying, for instance.