"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."

"A lie never lives to be old."

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

"Everybody lies."

"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."

"A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre."

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

"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!"

"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."

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

"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth."

"'Tis as easy as lying."

"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!"

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

"The Book of Daniel is especially fitted to be a battle-ground between faith and unbelief. It admits of no half-way measures. It is either Divine or an imposture. To write any book under the name of another, and to give it out to be his, is, in any case, a forgery, dishonest in itself, and destructive of all trustworthiness. But the case as to the Book of Daniel, if it were not his, would go far beyond even this. The writer, were he not Daniel, must have lied on a most frightful scale."

"The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie."

"What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s — it was like — we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment. — Texas A&M University (April 15, 2019)"

"He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool."

"To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars."

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

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

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

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."

"There's a lot of lying in modern finance. ... I don't like lying."

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

"If there is a punishment for telling the truth, then many people will tell lies. If telling lies is incentivized, then many people will tell lies. And if you allow mobs of people online or off to intimidate people and don’t stand up to them, then many people will be intimidated. And they will change what they say accordingly."

"And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two."

"An animal may be cunning and ferocious enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie."

"I give him joy that's awkward at a lie."

"Ce mensonge immortel."

"Had I a heart for falsehood framed. I ne'er could injure you."

"Mendacem memorem esse oportet."

"This shows that liars ought to have good memories."

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

"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."

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

"Round numbers are always false."

"Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus."

"Splendide mendax."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."