"It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. "
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
— George Bernard Shaw

""So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled.

"Because I'm Chuck Bass.""
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Would I Lie to You)

"A lie cannot live."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"“I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.”
I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry."
— Claudia Gray (Stargazer)

"The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better."
— Chris Onstad

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:

Ever been kicked?
Might have been.
Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs?
Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"The saddest thing is a little girl who is told by her own mother and father that she will never be pretty.

And then they open the front door, and on the porch is a little white suitcase, with all of her things in it."
— Chris Onstad

"If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie."
— Richard Wright

"Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The saddest thing is when the toilet from an abandoned space station falls back to earth, lands upside-down on a child who was playing alone in the backyard, and smooshes them into the shape of half a hard-boiled egg.
...And when they lift the toilet off of the child, two lips at the top of the bloody mound say, on their dying breath, "I love you, mommy."
— Chris Onstad

"The saddest thing is an old bag lady, freezing to death in the snow on Christmas Eve, and the last thing she sees is a family in a nice warm diner getting beheaded by the Taliban."
— Chris Onstad

""So let's just forget about the whole thing and agree never to speak of it again. And I promise I'll never lie to you again.

Ah, but surely you must be saying, "Hey! Isn't this entire story a work of fiction and therefore one big lie?"

Perhaps. But we already agreed never to speak of it again."

-Narrator, The Facttracker-"
— Jason Carter Eaton (The Facttracker)

"Never let the facts get in the way of the truth."
— Dr. Lightman

"At long last he was her's"
— Josephine Cox

"Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people."
— Steven Pinker (How the Mind Works)

"what is right? which accept ur mind and what is wrong? which doesn't accept ur mind."
— Aamir Khan

"To the union of all honest men."
— Aaron Burr

"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?"
— Cliff Burton