Lies Quotations
Dishonesty is the tendency towards untruth.
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- You know where you are with a complete liar, but when a chap mixes some truth with his yarns, you can't trust a word he says.
- Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth (1944), p. 162.ISBN 0-06-092021-1
- When we risk no contradiction,
It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
- John Gay, Fables (1727), "The Elephant and the Bookseller"
- Don’t lie, but don’t tell the whole truth.
- Baltasar Gracián, Maxim 181, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
- A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.
- Cordell Hull, Memoirs of Cordell Hull (1948), 1:220
- O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
- Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Canto VI, st. 17
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- But when we've practised quite a while
How vastly we improve our style!
- J. R. Pope, A Word of Encouragement. Collected in The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, 1978.
- But when we've practised quite a while
How vastly we improve our style!
- All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu, Art of War
- A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
- George and Eliot Warburton, Hochelaga; or, England in the New World: Volume 1 (1846), p. 215. Identified by the author as a Chinese proverb, but not found earlier than this publication; variously misattributed to other authors, and altered to expressions such as: "When Falsehood saw he had no legs to stand on, he made himself wings" (UN Monthly Chronicle: Volume 6 (1969), credited as "an old Jewish rabbinical saying").
- I never lie, even to this day. Not even a little. Unless you count playing pranks on people, which I don't. That's comedy. Entertainment doesn't count. A joke is different from a lie, even if the difference is kind of subtle.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
- Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away.
- Robert Hall, p. 241.
- Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
- Samuel Johnson, p. 242.
- Lie not, neither to thyself nor men nor God. Let mouth and heart be one — beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
- George Herbert, p. 242.
- I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.
- William Paley, p. 242.
- Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame.
- Hugh Blair, p. 242.
External links
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