Funny Quotes about Lying - Page 4
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
— Mark Twain
He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.
— Peter Benchley
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
— Graham Greene
Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
— Georges Bernanos
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
— William Mcilvanney
Don't lie if you don't have to.
— Leo Szilard
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
— Samuel Butler
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
— Lord Byron
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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