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 | ""Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of
morality, we imply that a man is true to his word?true to his signature on
a contract. The violations of God"s laws are evidence that lying and
misrepresentation are not absent from us." | |
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Ezra Taft Benson
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| "A goodly apple rotten at the heart; O, what a goodly outside
falsehood hath!" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great
truth." | |
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Thomas Mann
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| "A liar must have a good memory. ?Mendacem oportet esse
memorem" | |
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Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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| "A liar should have a good memory." | |
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Quintillian
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| "A lie never lives to be old." | |
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Sophocles
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| "Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed
lies." | |
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Edgar Watson "Ed" Howe
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| "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to
know how to lie well." | |
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Samuel Butler
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| "Ask me no questions, and I "ll tell you no fibs." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "By the time you swear you"re his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows
his passion is Infinite, undying ? Lady make note of this: One of you is
lying." | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it
most, grows two thereby." | |
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George Herbert
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| "Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar,
but is a stab at the health of human society." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or
another." | |
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Aleister Crowley
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| "Figures won"t lie, but liars will figure." | |
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Charles H. Grosvenor
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| "Half a truth is often a great lie." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot
lose." | |
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Jim Elliott
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| "He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do
it a second and third time till at length it becomes habitual." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted
to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of
its charms." | |
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Giovanni Giacomo Casanova
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| "I was provided with additional input that was radically different
from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." | |
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Oliver North
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| "In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand
truths." | |
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Henry Graham Greene
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| "In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a
pillar of the State." | |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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| "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended
by a bodyguard of lies." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." | |
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Arthur Calwell
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| "It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former
lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the
depth, where few are willing to search for it." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "It is not a lie, it"s a terminological inexactitude." | |
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Alexander Haig
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| "It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that
sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie." | |
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| "It"s raining my soul, it"s raining, but it"s raining dead
eyes." | |
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Guillaume Apollinaire
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| "LIAR, n. A lawyer with a roving commission." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens
the frictions of social contacts." | |
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Claire Booth Luce
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| "Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the
friction of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and
bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the
forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that?being what it
is?it falls so short of in fact and in deed." | |
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Clare Boothe Luce
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| "Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process
by which human ends are ultimately answered." | |
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Daniel Webster
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| "Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out
how to catch them." | |
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Paul Ekman, PhD
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| "Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to
death." | |
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Lyman Beecher
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| "No one is such a liar as the indignant man." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must
have." | |
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Elizabeth Bowen
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| "Sanity is a cozy lie." | |
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Susan Sontag
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| "Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser." | |
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Paul Newman
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| "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them
all." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "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." | |
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Helen Rowland
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| "That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That
a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright; But a lie
which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "The essence of lying is in deception, not in words." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "The gain of lying is, not to be trusted by any, nor to be believed
when we speak the truth." | |
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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| "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than
golf has." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "The liars punishment is, not in the least that he cannot be
believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being
insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a
mask." | |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| "The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to
believe." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "Them that asks no questions isn"t told a lie. Watch the wall, my
darling, while the Gentlemen go by!" | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and
Statistics." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and
statistics." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth." | |
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Proverb
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| "Though shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor." | |
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The Bible
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| "Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by
silence." | |
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
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| "When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself." | |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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| "Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying." | |
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Michel de Montaigne
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| "With this Ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all
my worldly goods I thee endow." | |
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Book of Common Prayer
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| "Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom." | |
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Anatole France
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| "You don"t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be
evasive." | |
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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