"'That was an exaggeration. I mean, just about as much of an exaggeration as you can possibly get, in fact, really, I suppose it was more what you might call an an overstatement. I might go so far as to say that what it really was,' Newt closed his eyes, 'was a prevarication.' 'A lie, you mean?' said Anathema sweetly"

- Good Omens (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman)

"...there is nothing so dangerous for any one who has something to hide as conversation! Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide."

-Hercule Poirot

"He is an artist - sensitive - impressionable - he feels things, rather than reasons about them ... Such a method in life is often disastrous - but it is sometimes justified."

Hercule Poirot

Odin. Source