Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It’s often employed by liars.
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at easy. Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.
~ Sam Harris
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
~ Douglas Malloch
A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.
~ Howard L. Salter
Life has taught me to release my ears from hearing negativity, destructive remarks, false rumors and stupid ways. I learn to open my eyes and my mind to think ahead of my life, to learn more of who I am.
~ Auliq Ice
Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.
PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars.”“Ah!” Manannan’s expression lit with comprehension. “They are politicians?
~ Kevin Hearne
Half of the people lie with their lips, the other half with their tears
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
~ French Proverb
Truth is the safest lie.
~ Jewish Proverb
All men are born truthful and die liars.
~ Vauvenargues
The lie is a condition of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
~ Norman Douglas
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
~ Samuel Butler
Who lies for you will lie against you.
~ Bosnian Proverb
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
~ Saki
A half-truth is a whole lie.
A liar should have a good memory.
~ Quintilian
Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
~ Sydney Smith
A Gossip is a dung beetle in disguise ....
~ M. Jackson
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
~ Joan Collins
