Like many a man before him, he found himself forced into a lie because the truth simply would not be believed.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Bomanz had lived his lies so long he often lied to himself.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

man lies to himself a lot.

Prolonged exposure to journalists made her distrust any news report; they got matters wrong so casually, even the simple ones.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Cohn had witnessed this for over a year — denial when needed or useful or more convenient. “He’s a professional liar,” Cohn told an associate.

It's exhausting to be lied to. I think some of the most accomplished liars even take advantage of this fact. Their lies then serve a double purpose: (a) whatever purpose each specific lie serves and (b) to exhaust their audience and thereby batter them into submission.

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

He simply accepted what the most widely available and accessible sources of information claimed was true. For his naïveté, he was systematically misled and bamboozled.

Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.

He lies on a regular basis. He says what he feels that he needs to say for his own benefit, and then he does what he feels that he needs to do for his own benefit as well. And all too often it doesn’t go together.