Eli: You actually read this book?
Lightman: No Loker, I just leave it lying around so plonkers like you think I am clever.
Eli: It could be Emily's.

Wallowski: It's like two rattle snakes in a bag.
Eli: Time for the scorpion.

Ria: You can't wait to get out of the hood.
Eli: I stick out like a white thumb.

Lightman: I thought you were on the hunt for a new job.
Eli: You heard about the economy right?
Lightman: Oh yeah.

Connie: Hey, why did your boss go down in that mine?
Eli: He operates on the premise that a predator has most success striking where his prey feels most at home.

Lightman: I will take care of the FBI.
Gillian: All you do is antagonize them. What this requires is a woman's touch, get lost.
Loker: What was that about?
Lightman: I was *never* here.

Do you know what the first line of his book is? "Let there be Lightman."

Eli: Lightman's going to chew her up and spit her out.
Gillian: Or maybe he'll choke.

Eli: So first round is on you after work?
Ria: Neah, expense it, have to act like a VP if you want to be a VP.

So you're saying you have accomplished nothing aside from being born.

Ria: What about loyalty?
Eli: With the way Lightman insults me on a daily basis; blind loyalty would just be self-loathing.

Eli: Does Lightman seem weird to you?
Tia: He's rude, impatient, distant, seems pretty normal to me.

Lie to Me Quotes

Weil: You haven't done enough muck-raking for one day?
Ria: Sir. We don't think you were doing anything sexual at that club, because, I believe this escort, Melissa, who you paid for time with-
Weil: What about her?
Ria: She's your daughter.

Gillian: Do you still have that note, that I brought you? I want it for my office.
Cal: (handing over the note) You really are a pack rat.
Gillian: You could have just told me what this was for.
Cal: No. You're a terrible liar.
Gillian: Normal people think that's a good thing.