There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

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

Lies are lies, but all lies have their moment to be believed.

There’s a scarcity of the authentic in our culture. “So many people are liars:

Forget that foreign word "ideals." We have that good old native word: "lies."

Like a lot of things that everybody knows, it wasn’t true.

"P.J. said, "That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know."
"Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it."
"Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.

The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, in anguish, nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody's begun to lie and because they lie they assume that I lie too: they overlook the fact that I remember very well many things (of course I've forgotten some), but I do believe that lying is a sin, unless it's an innocent lie based on lack of memory, certainly the giving of false evidence and being a false witness is a mortal sin, but what I mean is, insofar as lying has become so prevalent in the world today (thanks to Marxian Dialectal propaganda and Comintern techniques among other causes) that, when a man tells the truth, everybody, looking in the mirror and seeing a liar, assumes that the truth-teller is lying too.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Lies are easy to believe in but the truth sounds false.

There's no escaping it-the world is full of lies. It is safest always to accept what one hears as if it were utterly commonplace and devoid of interest.

I've noticed that. They believe the lies far more than they believe the truth.