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And, after all, what is lie?’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive!
Most lies are quite successful, and human society would be impossible without a great deal of good natured lying.
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.
The great mass of people… will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
No man spreads a lie with so god a race as he that believes it.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Women lie about their age; men abut their income.
When I make a mistake every one can see it, but not when I lie.
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
Good lies need a leavening if truth to make them palatable.
After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, ‘tis not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it.
Whence it comes to pass that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Falsehood and fraud grow up in every soil, the product of all climes.
If a man had the art of second sight for seeing lies as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits how admirably he might entertain himself by observing the different shapes, sizes, and colors of those swarms of lies, which buzz about the heads of some people, like flies about a horses ears in summer; or those legions hovering every afternoon so as to darken the air; or over a club of discontented grandees, and thence sent down in cargoes, to be scattered at elections.
Lying is a hateful and accursed vice. We have no other tip upon one another, but our world. If we did but discover the horror and consequences of it, we should pursuer it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than any one can lie me out of it.
White lies are but the ushers to black ones.
Lies which are told out of arrogance and ostentation, a man should detect in his own defense, because he should not be triumphed over. Lies which are told out of malice he should expose, both for his own sake and that of the rest of mankind, because every man should rise against a common enemy; but the officious liar, many have argued, is to be excused, because it does some man good, and no man hurt.
The most intangible, and therefore the worst kind of a lie, is a half truth this is the peculiar device of the “conscientious” detractor.
A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is whole way to hell.
The gain of lying is not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
Saki (H.H.Munro) (1870-1916) Scottish author.
And, after all, what is lie?’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet.
Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive!
Most lies are quite successful, and human society would be impossible without a great deal of good natured lying.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.
The great mass of people… will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) German dictator.
No man spreads a lie with so god a race as he that believes it.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Women lie about their age; men abut their income.
William Feather (b.1889) American businessman.
When I make a mistake every one can see it, but not when I lie.
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist.
Good lies need a leavening if truth to make them palatable.
After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, ‘tis not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it.
Whence it comes to pass that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
Montaigne.
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Montaigne.
Falsehood and fraud grow up in every soil, the product of all climes.
Addions.
If a man had the art of second sight for seeing lies as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits how admirably he might entertain himself by observing the different shapes, sizes, and colors of those swarms of lies, which buzz about the heads of some people, like flies about a horses ears in summer; or those legions hovering every afternoon so as to darken the air; or over a club of discontented grandees, and thence sent down in cargoes, to be scattered at elections.
Swift.
Lying is a hateful and accursed vice. We have no other tip upon one another, but our world. If we did but discover the horror and consequences of it, we should pursuer it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes.
Montaigne.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than any one can lie me out of it.
Lyman Beecher.
White lies are but the ushers to black ones.
Marryat.
Lies which are told out of arrogance and ostentation, a man should detect in his own defense, because he should not be triumphed over. Lies which are told out of malice he should expose, both for his own sake and that of the rest of mankind, because every man should rise against a common enemy; but the officious liar, many have argued, is to be excused, because it does some man good, and no man hurt.
Steele.
The most intangible, and therefore the worst kind of a lie, is a half truth this is the peculiar device of the “conscientious” detractor.
Washington Allston.
A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Tennyson.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
O.W.Holmes.
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is whole way to hell.
Penn.
The gain of lying is not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
Sir W.Raleigh.
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