Unlike most people on this page, this troper usually follows the spirit of this trope rather than the technicality. While she won't tell a lie, she doesn't twist her words or anything in most circumstances. This gives her a state of "my word is law" at school, where people will go to her to solve debates and accept her word on the veracity of rumors concerning her immediately. Of course, she doesn't abuse this power and she admits it when she doesn't know the answer; she doesn't use her honesty for the power but rather for the righteousness. High school rumors about "(troper) likes so and so!" don't last more than a day; either they're debunked or rendered uninteresting by confirmation. Debates on whether a goal in gym was valid are ended instantly by my word on what I saw - people tend to trust me too much! Just because I tell the truth doesn't mean I'm ''right''!

Hmm...ok...

This troper is similar. She makes it a point to always be honest as part of her personal moral code.

This troper falls squarely into the TechnicalPacifist ConsummateLiar subtype of this trope, because she really hates to say things that aren't true, and thus avoids telling full-blown lies unless absolutely necessary, which she's very bad at anyways (although there are very occasional exceptions to this rule, such as how she doesn't seem to have a problem with agreeing with a statement that she knows isn't true so long as she doesn't add to it substantially); however, she misdirects people by framing the truth or a portion thereof such that they'll draw the wrong conclusion from it, or answering a question with something that's true but doesn't actually constitute a meaningful response to that question when examined closely. Or sometimes refusing to answer altogether (which is a lot less suspicious over the internets than in a real-life conversation, granted).

And this troper is the exact same way. Surprisingly, it's not as much of a handicap when playing Diplomacy (the board game) as you might think.

Ditto.

-raises hand-

This troper is pathologically incapable of even a little white lie. It will bother her for ''days''.

Same.

This troper will tell the truth, as his dad pointed out, like a lawyer (he used a more era famous politician who I won't mention, but most of you probably figured out who it is. If you haven't maybe we should ask what the definition of is is...). If I kicked my brother, and my father asked me if I hit him, I would say no. I never hit him, I kicked him. It's a talent this troper doesn't use often, if your definition of often is EVERY time he is in trouble.

Given that one of the definitions of "hit" is "A collision or impact", and given that your foot collided with your brother, then you have indeed lied. In the standard definition of the word. You would probably be better off saying something like "I did not even 'once' hit, struck, or kicked my brother" - which, depending on how many times you actually hit him, could be very much true.

I'm afraid that this fails to meet the standards of rigorous mathematical logic. Blows land one at a time, not all at once. Therefore if you hit someone three times, there was a point in time at which you had only hit him twice, and another point in time at which you had only hit him once -- making the above statement false. The only way that statement can be true is if the number of blows inflicted (by whatever means) was zero.

Prevarication is indeed a handy skill to master.

Not really. It's just another form of lying, only more limited. You have less flexibility in what you say, so you're more likely to be found out, and if you ''are'' found out people react just as badly as if you actually lied, since there's fundamentally no difference in intent. Prevarication is childish, get some balls and lie if you need to lie.

This troper is the embodiment of this, Half-truths and {{Brutally Honest}} galore! I also don't appreciate people rewording my sentences, because of the way they are carefully arranged.

Totally know what you mean about getting your sentences paraphrased. That annoys me too; I'll get a sentence just right -- it'll both convey ''just'' the right meaning and sound good -- and then someone'll restate it so it either sounds kind of dumb or distorts the intended meaning (often revealing subtle misunderstandings on their part) or both.

This troper can count on one hand the amount of times she's told an all-out lie. She tries to avoid half-truths too, but wouldn't absolutely ban them. And if you ask her to lie for you, cover all sensitive bodily areas.

This troper involuntarily freezes in mid-utterance if He tries to *lie* but has nearly perfected the art of sculpting the truth in such a way as to allow it to appear in different forms, depending upon one's point of view. He may have to go into politics.

You too? Though this troper also tends to get into trouble when someone puts him on the spot with a yes-or-no question.

This troper has trouble with lying and other forms of deceit. This doesn't mean he doesn't conceal information, however - he just ''doesn't tell it to people.'' On those occasions where somebody is actively seeking a secret, the honest phrase "I don't want to tell you that" works extremely well.

MutantRancor is the same way. "Not my secret to tell" also works well, if it really isn't your secret. Or just "Not talking, don't ask again."

This troper hates to lie. Also - despite being able to cheat a polygraph and most {{LivingLieDetector}}s - he only lies when he protects someone or a secret. However, in his case telling the truth isn't easy sometimes...

This troper is a ''very'' bad liar, and will in fact feel extremely uncomfortable if he tries to lie or even twist the truth. Additionally, being lied to is one of his rage triggers.

This troper tries to avoid lying to friends as an excuse as then he has to remember what lie he has told to who and will thus have trouble avoiding being caught out. However there are some situations where I will lie as it's only a quick short lie that won't impact later events and i can get away with it. Even still, I try to keep it to only a last resort.

This troper not only qualifies, but also is a very bad liar when he needs it, frequently messing up.

Subverted! This troper lies like a two dollar whore. Which is to say, frequently and with little reason.

This troper has an RP character who functions exactly this way, due to hating bald-faced lies. He's also a LivingLieDetector. It's quite fun. He himself isn't fond of lying either, but understands the occasional necessity.

This troper's brother will rat on himself. It's a compulsion from his OCD.

This troper is shamelessly manipulative to those who mistreat her and is ''can'' lie perfectly and always be believed, but not to nice people or strangers at all; it's practically a physical impossibility to even tell a tiny fib or lie-by-omission to those she cares about and is also a LivingLieDetector.

Subverted with This Troper, who is a perfect liar to every single person in the world except his parents. A bit of a habit that he can lie perfectly, since almost nobody realizes he is lying.

Somewhat subverted with this troper, who is totally willing to lie to his family and parents about a lot of things but wouldn't dream of lying to any of his friends, especially his closer friends.

This troper used to have a terrible aversion to telling even little white lies, until the day when she confessed to telling one and ended up offending somebody ''completely by accident'' with the truth. Now she doesn't really care whether she tells the truth or not, as long as it keeps things peaceful.

This troper combines it with IGaveMyWord and TechnicalPacifist. It has the side-effect of making him parse sentences like a lawyer. Partial subversion, however, in that some people assume he is lying because it takes him so long to mentally construct a sentence, and the knowledge that people doubt his veracity stresses him sufficiently to throw up frequent false positives with actual lie detectors. On the few occasions that he ''does'' actually lie, he has created a part of his mind that believes it to be true, in a similar manner to "getting into character" for an actor: he knows it to be fiction, but is prepared to take the part of someone that believes it to be true.

'''Those of you who claim to be actual liars, how do we know you're not lieing about it?'''

Wait, what?

The Epimenides Paradox. Look it up. That was a very poor set-up, though.

Especially with the blatant tyop.

This troper has had several friends who qualify. One was following radical honesty, whereas the other seemed to have taken a page out of WheelOfTime.

This troper plans at some point to play an entire game of Mitadake High without telling a single lie, but also without giving away any information that isn't necessary. For those who don't know- Mitadake High is a game built entirely on manipulating people.

A case of this being in my fiction, a nihilistic computer of mine has decided the one thing it would never, ever, in a million years to do, is tell a lie. Not because of programming; well, it has that in its programming, but it got around that centuries ago. It will never tell a lie because ''the truth is far more terrible.''

Due to being The Fettered, This Troper does his best not to lie. So far, he cannot remember the last lie he told that was not "I'll be up in a minute. *sleepy*". But he has on occassion twisted the truth, but only out of necessity to avoid an argument.

Whenever this troper tries to tell a lie, the amount of ticks that appear are quite astounding. Unfortunately, most people tend to think that this is so over-the-top that I am using it to as a double-bluff and am Obfuscating Stupidity, and so examine all my other statements minutely. This is annoying.

This troper has outright lied very, very few times. Not out of any sort of moral code - but because she is paranoid that if she lies, it will somehow be found out. Thus, she only lies when she's certain no one could possibly figure out the truth. White lies, half-truths, evasions, and excuses are all perfectly acceptable in her eyes and don't trigger the paranoia. Thankfully.

Many people (mistakenly) assume this of this troper. I believe that's how I'm able to get away with some pretty big ones.

My little brother.

Lying and deception are two of my biggest pet peeves (vast understatement there), so I try to remain as honest as possible unless the situation absolutely requires me to lie.

This troper has got away with things by being completely honest but saying it in such a way that the person I was talking to thinks I’m joking. When told not to get up to anything when my parents went away for the weekend I grinned and replied “ok then, just a mid size piss up with drugs, sex, drinking games and burnt pizza”, they just laughed, I did exactly what I said I would.

This troper has (fairly mild) Asperger's Syndrome, and I don't like flat out lies. What I consider to be lying though is somewhat complex, and I have been known to take advantage of this. For example, lying by omission isn't lying, neither are "Lies to children". In addition, I find it easy enough to use ExactWords to avoid actually lying.

I used to have no problem with lying, viewing it as a crucial part of life in order to avoid trouble with my perfectionist parents. However, recent medication changes have exacerbated my anxiety problems, somehow resulting in the inability to tell even a little white lie without being consumed by guilt. And simply hiding the truth, which I relied on immensely? Can't do that either.