Everybody Lies Quotes

• It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

  Hugh Laurie

  Lying, House, Variables

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• It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.

  David Shore

  Lying, What Matters, Focus

  "House: Three Stories". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• People hide the truth because they're afraid.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People

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• Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Fake, Sincerity, Best House

  Mary Jo Putney (2002). “The Spiral Path”, Center Point Pub

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• People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Important, Stories

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• I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

  Penelope Cruz

  Jobs, Lying, Love Life

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• Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Attitude, Lying

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2131, GENERAL PRESS

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• Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid." -Jo

  Nicholas Sparks

  Honesty, Lying, Thinking

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• The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.

  Neal Cassady

  Hurt, Lying, Sun

  Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.145, Penguin

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• because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .

  Nicholas Sparks

  Lying

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• Everybody lies about sex. People lie during sex. If it weren't for lies, there'd be no sex.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sex, Lying, People

  1998 In the NewYorkTimes,18 Dec.

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• Everybody lies about sex.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Lying

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Mean, Snakes

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

  Thornton Wilder

  Stars, Lying, Journey

  Thornton Wilder (2007). “Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater”

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• The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

  Ted Allen

  Thanksgiving, Lying, Home

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