Quotes about Lies

Constable: I'm going to stay here if it takes all year. I am waiting for you to tell the truth.
David Huxley: Ohhh, if you're gonna wait for her to tell the truth, you'll have a long grey beard -- down to here.

- Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Madge Hardwick: Well, if that's your story Horace, you stick to it.

- Helen Broderick (as Madge Hardwick) in Top Hat (1935)

Jerry Travers: Always remember that the truth has never hurt any man - and anyway, if it does, I'll go to the hopsital with you.

- Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat (1935)

Stephanie: Toni, Toni... Wait! Julian loves you.
Toni Simmons: Then why did he lie like that?
Stephanie: He isn't a bad man, he's just a little weak.
Toni Simmons: A weak man, but a strong lier.

- Goldie Hawn (as Toni Simmons) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Rusty Hart: You couldn't keep Wade here, Colonel. He's the most 'movin' on' man you ever saw. First off, he was in the English army over in India. Then he got mixed up in some kind of a hu-rah Revolution down in Cuba way. Then he started punchin' cattle in Texas, that is, of course, before he enlisted in the war. So, you see, he's either the greatest traveler ever lived, or else he is the biggest lier!

- Alan Hale Sr. (as Rusty Hart) in Dodge City (1939)

Dr. Julian Winston: What? Never! What'd she tell you? I deny it!

- Walter Matthau (as Dr. Julian Winston) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Toni Simmons: A man who lies cannot love.

- Goldie Hawn (as Toni Simmons) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Toni Simmons: Oh well, it's not such a bad arrangement, and it's fair. You'll still have your wife and me, and I'll still have you and Igor.
Dr. Julian Winston: Igor. Igor? But you said you were just friends...what -- you, you were lying to me?
Toni Simmons: I'm ashamed to admit it. I know how you hate the thought of a lie.

- Goldie Hawn (as Toni Simmons) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Mario Manetta: What's the difference what he said? Even when he's lying, he's lying.

- Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Alma: I do mean it when I say I need you. 'Cause I'm lonely. You think I'm lying, don't you?
Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

- Montgomery Clift (as Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt) in From Here to Eternity (1953)