Some day, the wolf'll get ya
Then, you'll be in a fix
You'll blow that horn, and I won't come
I'll think it's one of your tricks
Then, you'll be in a fix
You'll blow that horn, and I won't come
I'll think it's one of your tricks
— The Practical Pig, "Three Little Wolves"
Elizabeth Swann: It's real!
Norrington: You actually were telling the truth.
Jack Sparrow: I do that quite a lot. Yet people are always surprised.
Will Turner: With good reason!
Norrington: You actually were telling the truth.
Jack Sparrow: I do that quite a lot. Yet people are always surprised.
Will Turner: With good reason!
Shepherd: Well, that's the moral of the story, ain't it? If you lie too many times, you won't be believed when you tell the truth.
Prosecutor: No, Mr. Shepherd, with respect, it is not the moral of the story. The moral of the story is that if you have grounds to believe there is a ferocious predator at large, don't appoint as your sole watchman a 12-year-old child whom you have resolved to ignore.
Shepherd: Bloomin' nanny state.
[Snip]
Prosecutor: And so perished your unfortunate nephew (and 47 sheep), your late brother's only son and sole inheriter of his cottage and his flock of ailing, unprofitable, heavily insured sheep. Thank you Mr Shepherd, that will be all. Oh, one last thing: how did your brother die?
Shepherd: A jaguar got in his bathroom.
Prosecutor: No further questions.
Prosecutor: No, Mr. Shepherd, with respect, it is not the moral of the story. The moral of the story is that if you have grounds to believe there is a ferocious predator at large, don't appoint as your sole watchman a 12-year-old child whom you have resolved to ignore.
Shepherd: Bloomin' nanny state.
[Snip]
Prosecutor: And so perished your unfortunate nephew (and 47 sheep), your late brother's only son and sole inheriter of his cottage and his flock of ailing, unprofitable, heavily insured sheep. Thank you Mr Shepherd, that will be all. Oh, one last thing: how did your brother die?
Shepherd: A jaguar got in his bathroom.
Prosecutor: No further questions.
Tommy: What if Angelica is telling the truth?
Angelica: Yeah! What if I'm telling the truth?
Susie: "Telling the truth"?! You mean like the time you told Tommy his new baby sister was coming in the mail?
Angelica: Well...
Susie: Or the time you told Phil and Lil that their daddy's hair was a wig?
Phil: Boy, did he get mad when we tried to pull it off.
Lil: It was kind of funny though.
Susie: Or the time you told Chuckie that the guy on the oatmeal box moved in next door?
Chuckie: (shudders) Don't remind me.
Susie: Face it, you never tell the truth!
Angelica: Yeah! What if I'm telling the truth?
Susie: "Telling the truth"?! You mean like the time you told Tommy his new baby sister was coming in the mail?
Angelica: Well...
Susie: Or the time you told Phil and Lil that their daddy's hair was a wig?
Phil: Boy, did he get mad when we tried to pull it off.
Lil: It was kind of funny though.
Susie: Or the time you told Chuckie that the guy on the oatmeal box moved in next door?
Chuckie: (shudders) Don't remind me.
Susie: Face it, you never tell the truth!
— Rugrats, "Tricycle Thief"
Ralph: Ms. Hoover, there's a dog in the vent.
Ms. Hoover: Ralph, remember when you said that Snagglepuss was outside?
Ralph: He was going to the bathroom.
Ms. Hoover: Ralph, remember when you said that Snagglepuss was outside?
Ralph: He was going to the bathroom.
— The Simpsons, "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
No matter how many shorts we have in the system, my guards will be instructed to treat every surveillance camera malfunction as a full-scale emergency.
— The Evil Overlord List
Who do you think you're fooling?
Yeah, right, sure!
I guess the sky is falling
Hey, we've heard it all before
You pulled the wool right over our eyes
Too many times with all of your lies
Who do you think you're fooling?
Yeah, right, sure!
Yeah, right, sure!
I guess the sky is falling
Hey, we've heard it all before
You pulled the wool right over our eyes
Too many times with all of your lies
Who do you think you're fooling?
Yeah, right, sure!
I have celiac disease, and there are people with genuine life-threatening allergies. When people like me go into a restaurant, we're at the whim of a waiter who may have just served twenty fussy assholes from the Food Babe Army who think that gluten causes your spleen to turn radioactive, or whatever lie she's using to sell organic kale dipped in yak's butter this week. So when I tell a server that I can't do gluten, that waiter might roll their eyes at me because of people like Vani Hari.
—Yvette d'Entremont, The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit
"You're very convincing. But don't you see? You've misled them about us, so how can we know you're not misleading us... about them?"
Julian Bashir: But the point is, if you lie all the time, nobody's going to believe you even when you're telling the truth.
Elim Garak: Are you sure that's the point, Doctor?
Bashir: Of course. What else could it be?
Garak: That you should never tell the same lie twice.
Elim Garak: Are you sure that's the point, Doctor?
Bashir: Of course. What else could it be?
Garak: That you should never tell the same lie twice.
—Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Improbable Cause"
Sheen: Kid cries wolf, people come to help, no wolf, kid laughs, he made it up, real wolf comes later, kid yells, people don't come, and—
Carl: (stammering) Don't tell me the ending, I haven't finished the book!
(*Beat*)
Sheen: THE KID'S WOLF FOOD!
Carl: Sheeeeeen!
Carl: (stammering) Don't tell me the ending, I haven't finished the book!
(*Beat*)
Sheen: THE KID'S WOLF FOOD!
Carl: Sheeeeeen!
—The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, "The Junkman Cometh"
Captain Freeman: I'm sorry. I don't know why I didn't trust you.
Mariner: Maybe because I spent years making sure you didn't?
Mariner: Maybe because I spent years making sure you didn't?
Grandma Tibble: Hello, dears. How have you been? Is the [jail] food okay?
Tommy: No, it's terrible!
Timmy: We haven't been able to eat a thing.
Grandma Tibble: Well, I brought you this cherry pie. ...But what if you're lying again? What if the food is actually quite good? How do I know you're telling the truth?
Tommy: We are, Grandma.
Timmy: We promise!
Grandma Tibble: Oh, I wish I could believe you. (sobs)
Tommy: No, it's terrible!
Timmy: We haven't been able to eat a thing.
Grandma Tibble: Well, I brought you this cherry pie. ...But what if you're lying again? What if the food is actually quite good? How do I know you're telling the truth?
Tommy: We are, Grandma.
Timmy: We promise!
Grandma Tibble: Oh, I wish I could believe you. (sobs)
— Arthur, during the Tibble twins' Guilt-Induced Nightmare in "To Tibble the Truth".
Max's father: "STOP PLAYING WITH THE LIGHTS OR THE CAR WILL EXPLODE!"
Max: "You're lying lol, you always say bizarre lies to scare me." (keeps playing with it, but the car does explode)
This isn't like the last time! I really did kill a Night Fury!
— Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon
Once when we slept at Grandma's house, where it was quiet as a mouse, I heard loud creaking overhead. "Don't worry," yawned my cousin Ed, "It's just the alligator going to bed." Dad checked everything with a light, and said, "There's not a thing in sight", but I still couldn't sleep that night.
When Ed and I were at the zoo, Ed said, "That monkey looks like you. When you grow up, you'll live here too. Don't cry; I'll come and visit you." Was he teasing? I still worry; I don't want to be all furry. Ed gave me such an awful fright, 'cause sometimes what he says is right.
He said, "Aunt Mary has no teeth." I thought that was beyond belief, but when we spied, there was no doubt, because we saw her pop them out.
When Ed and I were at the zoo, Ed said, "That monkey looks like you. When you grow up, you'll live here too. Don't cry; I'll come and visit you." Was he teasing? I still worry; I don't want to be all furry. Ed gave me such an awful fright, 'cause sometimes what he says is right.
He said, "Aunt Mary has no teeth." I thought that was beyond belief, but when we spied, there was no doubt, because we saw her pop them out.
— Narrator Boy, Would I Ever Lie To You
Matilda: "Fire!"
Everyone Else: "Little liar!"
— "Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death"
Boy: "Mother, there is a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion in the meadow!"
Mother: "Little boy, you are making up stories again."
