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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. - Aeschylus Liars are always most disposed to swear. [It., A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.] - Vittorio Alfieri, Virginia (II, 3) It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm. - Washington Allston The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a "conscientious" detractor. - Washington Allston But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie. [Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto, Che la facesse di menzogna rea.] - Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (XVIII, 84) A liar is a bravo towards God and a coward towards men. - Francis Bacon And none speaks false, when there in none to hear. - James Beattie, The Minstrel (bk. II, st. 24) A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. - Henry Ward Beecher A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all. - Henry Ward Beecher Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie: he has to, to make the lie good for anything. - Henry Ward Beecher The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - Hilaire Belloc (Joseph Hilaire Pierre Sebastien Rene Swanton Belloc) I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. - Bible, Psalms (ch. CXVI, v. 11) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. - Elizabeth Bowen Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. - Elizabeth Bowen Damned good care has been taken to see that the whole truth never does emerge. - attributed to Norman Craven Brook, 1st Lord Normanbrook of Chelsea, in "The Guardian, October, 30, 1986 Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist. - Sir Thomas Browne Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth. - Robert Browning Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication. - Edmund Burke, Impeachment of Warren Hastings Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 821) The truth in masquerade. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make, Why they lie also--under a mistake. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XI, st. 37) You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face, I now Say what I think. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, El Magico Prodigioso (sc. 1), translation by Shelley Lies exist only to be extinguished. - Thomas Carlyle Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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