- If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. ~ A. A. Milne
- No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ~ Anatole France
- If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it. ~ Billy Boy Franklin
- One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman. ~ Charles-Louis Philippe
- A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ~ Finley Peter Dunne
- One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! ~ Georges Bernanos
- I keep reading between the lies. ~ Goodman Ace
- He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. ~ Graham Greene
- Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. ~ Helen Rowland
- Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~ Homer Simpson
- Don't lie if you don't have to. ~ Leo Szilard
- If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody. ~ Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige
- If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
- And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. ~ Lord Byron
- Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. ~ Lyman Beecher
- So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. ~ Mark Twain (On the Decay of the Art of Lying)
- I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. ~ Mark Twain
- There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. ~ Mark Twain (Following the Equator)
- Never tell a lie--except for practice. ~ Mark Twain
- The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. ~ Minna Antrim
- It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. ~ Norman Douglas
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ~ Oliver Wendell Homes (The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table)
- People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. ~ Otto Von Bismarck
- He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening. ~ Peter Benchley (Q Clearance)
- The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn't? ~ Quentin Crisp
- Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ~ Samuel Butler
- I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ~ Samuel Butler
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. ~ Samuel Butler
- Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ~ Samuel Butler
- Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ~ Steven Soderbergh
- I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. ~ Voltaire
- When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. ~ William Feather
- Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. ~ William Mcilvanney
- There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ~ Winston Churchill
- If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. ~ Zohar
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