"Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well."

— Saki 🎄

"Why didn't Jacob simply refuse to go along with this bold, obvious swindle? Again, Robert Alter's insights are invaluable. When Jacob asks, 'Why have you DECEIVED me?' the Hebrew word is the same one used in chapter 27 to describe what Jacob did to Isaac. Alter then quotes an ancient rabbinical commentator who imagines the conversation the next day between Jacob and Leah. Jacob says to Leah: 'I called out "Rachel" in the dark and you answered. Why did you do that to me?' And Leah says to him, 'Your father called out "Esau" in the dark and you answered. Why did you do that to him?' His fury dies on his lips. He sees what it is like to be manipulated and deceived, and he meekly complies with Laban's offer."

— Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters 🎄

"Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing"

— Dean Cavanagh 🎄

"I try not to take things lying down, especially rectal thermometers"

— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached? 🎄

"Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie."

— Glenda Bailey-Mershon, Eve's Garden 🎄

"Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both."

— Kiersten White, Mind Games 🎄

"Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?"

— Kasie West, Split Second 🎄

"having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liars paradise"

— Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy 🎄