What's a polite way to tell someone you know they are lying?

Know? the best you can achieve is believe. When that happens, say something like, 'This situation reminds me of H. L. Mencken's quote about what he would do in situations like this.' The quote? read more

I think one polite way is to start off the sentence with what you know they lied about and be like, “but DON’T worry it’s OK,” try to say this in the nicest manner so you can to get them to think that everything in the Universe is jolly for a second, then shun them on what they did wrong. read more

Former CIA officers Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero distilled their professional deception-detecting skills into a fascinating book, Spy the Lie, now available in paperback. In the excerpt below, the authors reveal six telltale signs someone is lying. read more