Lies in Quotes

• Round numbers are always false.- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -Mark Twain (1835-1910)
• Of course I lie to people, but I lie altruistically-for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners.- Quentin Crisp (1908-1999)
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.-Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends...That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
• A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.- Saki (1870-1916)
• White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.- William Paley (1743-1805)
• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
• A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in trouble. -Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
• No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. -George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
• In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. -Graham Greene(1904-1991)
• Repetition does not turn a lie into a truth.-Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)