Funny Quotes about Lying
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
— Anatole France
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
— William Feather
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
— Winston Churchill
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
— Mark Twain
The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn't?
— Quentin Crisp
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
— George Bernard Shaw
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
— Minna Antrim
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
— Samuel Butler
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
— Helen Rowland
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