Lying

"'Tis as easy as lying."

"These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable."

"Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock."

"For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have."

"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying!"

"Whose tongue soe'er speaks false, Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies."

"An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"

"Stop! I am not a real Sharkslayer! I lied."

"Everybody lies."

"It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"An occasional little white lie such as Weston's probably won't cause any lasting damage. And at times, telling the truth—particularly the whole truth to a child who's not at an age to handle it—may do more harm than good, they say."

"Tell a lie and then tell the truth: it will be considered a lie."

"As long as you live you should not increase evil by telling lies; for if you do, to succumb will be your lot."

"When liars enter by the city gate, in front of them there is a finger pointing at them, behind them there is a finger pointing at them."

"I mean you lie—under a mistake."

"If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it. But if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it."

"But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead."

"The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. … How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"

"“I don’t think he (Branch Rickey) would lie,” said Red Smith, “but he was so good at evasion, at circumlocution, that he didn’t have to lie.”"

"When hope lies dead—ah, when 'tis death to live, And wrongs remembered make the heart still bleed, Better are Sleep's kind lies for Life's blind need Than truth, if lies a little peace can give."

"Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbors’ eyes?"

"There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience."

"A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre."

"Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto, Che la facesse di menzogna rea."

"And none speaks false, when there is none to hear."

"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."

"Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in præcipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere."

"Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus."

"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."

"An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar."

"Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments."

"Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti."

"Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise."

"Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich lüge, nicht."

"As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood."

"Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell."

"Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies."

"For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying."

"Splendide mendax."

"Round numbers are always false."

"Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus."

"Qui ne sent point assez ferme de memoire, ne se doit pas mêler d'être menteur."

"Hercle audivi esse optimum mendacium. Quicquid dei dicunt, id rectum est dicere."

"Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars)."

"Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the Speaker."

"I said in my haste, All men are liars."

"Mendacem memorem esse oportet."