P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lying, Politician, Danger

• All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lying, Faces, Cynicism

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lying, Drinking, Book

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.205, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Lying, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.169, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Lying, Kids

• I'll pick "I'm kidding" anytime over "I'm lying."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lying, Picks

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