“Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.”
“Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.”
“Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.”
“He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.”
“If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.”
“Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.”
“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.”
“He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.”
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
“A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.”
“Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.”
“With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.”
“You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”
“It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.”
“In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
“A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.”
“Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.”
“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.”
“Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.”
“When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.”
“Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.”
“The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.”
“I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”
“Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.”
“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.”
“Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.”
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
“Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.”
“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”