Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.'

'Do I look like a liar?'

'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.