“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”
“We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
“When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.”
“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”
“Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.”
“This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
כך עונשו של בדאי שאפילו אמר אמת אין שומעין לו
Text: Wikisource Talmud Bavli via Sefaria (CC-BY-SA)
“Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.”
“Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.”
“A liar is full of oaths.”
“Great talker, great liar.”
“Lying rides upon debt's back.”
“Don't lie if you don't have to.”
“The lie is a condition of life.”
“Liars need to have good memories.”
“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.”
“Liars are always ready to take oaths.”
“Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.”
“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”
“Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.”
“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
“No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.”
“By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.”
“Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.”
“I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.”
“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.”
“Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.”
“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.”