Quotes about Lies

Dr. Julian Winston: The minute I met her, I knew this girl could make me do anything - so just to protect myself in the clinches I told her that I had a wife and three children.
Harvey Greenfield: Three children's a nice touch.
Dr. Julian Winston: And I told it to her right away so that everything between us would be open and above board.

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

Brad Allen: Why don't you take her over for the rest of the evening?
Jonathan Forbes: Me?
Brad Allen: Yeah! Take her dancing maybe. She's dying to learn how to dance.
Jonathan Forbes: Wait wait. She doesn't know how to dance?
Brad Allen: Well naturally, she doesn't get out of the house very often.
Jonathan Forbes: What do you mean, "naturally"?
Brad Allen: Jonathan, believe me, you and Moose - I mean Miss Taggett will get along...

- Rock Hudson (as Brad Allen) in Pillow Talk (1959)

Jerry: What are you trying to do to that poor girl, putting on a millionaire act? And, where did you get that phony accent? Nobody "talks loike thaet"!

- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Shane: I've heard about you.
Jack Wilson: What have you heard, Shane?
Shane: I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar.
Jack Wilson: Prove it.

- Jack Palance (as Jack Wilson) in Shane (1953)

Harvey Greenfield: Good, very good... That's such a big, dirty, rotten, filthy lie, it has class.

- Jack Weston (as Harvey Greenfield) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Harvey Greenfield: Now look, I can give you a dozen explanations, but you might as well know the real one: I'm a member of the CIA.
Georgia: The CIA??? I thought you were a television actor?
Harvey Greenfield: That's my cover. So if you ever see me in public with another girl you must pretend not to know me, or it could put my life in great danger.

- Jack Weston (as Harvey Greenfield) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Roger Thornhill: In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.

- Cary Grant (as Roger O. Thornhill) in North by Northwest (1959)

Leonard: You must have had some doubts about her yourself. You still do.
Phillip Vandamm: Rubbish.
Leonard: Why else would you have decided not to tell her that our little treasure here has a belly full of microfilm?
Phillip Vandamm: You seem to be trying to fill mine with rotten apples.
Leonard: Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms.
Phillip Vandamm: The truth? I've heard nothing but innuendos.
Leonard: Call it my woman's intuition, if you will. But I've never trusted neatness. Neatness is always the result of deliberate planning.

- Martin Landau (as Leonard) in North by Northwest (1959)

[regarding the bullet wound on Lawrence's arm]
Turkish Bey: Where did you get this wound?
T.E. Lawrence: That is old, effendi.
Turkish Bey: No, it is recent. You are a deserter. But from which army? Not that it matters at all. A man can't always be in uniform.

- José Ferrer (as Turkish Bey) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Mr. Dryden: You've been telling half truths.One who tells lies hides the truth but when telling half truths,you've forgotten where you've put it.

- Claude Rains (as Mr. Dryden) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)