We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.