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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
Author: Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Author: Aristotle
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Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Author: Austin O’Malley
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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Author: Bill Copeland
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Author: Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment
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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
Author: E.V. Lucas
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Author: Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916
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It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
Author: ‘Homer Simpson,’ from the television show The Simpsons
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
Author: John Updike
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Author: Josh Billings
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Author: Lin Yutang
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Author: Mark Twain
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I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t.
Author: Mark Twain
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If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Author: Mark Twain
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It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Author: Michel de Montaigne, translated
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If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.
Author: O. Henry, Rolling Stones, 1912
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