Quotations on Lying | Quotations: 21 | Pages: 3
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by Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684) |
A good memory is needed once we have lied. |
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by Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684) |
A liar is always lavish of oaths. |
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by Alfred Lord Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) |
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. |
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by Josh Billings (April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885) |
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. |
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by Samuel Johnson (September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784) |
A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known. |
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by Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1728 - April 4, 1774) |
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. |
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by Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1728 - April 4, 1774) |
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. |
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by Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 - July 6, 1533) |
But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie. |
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by Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) |
Half the truth is often a great lie. |
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by Bible
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I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. |
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Authors with quotations on topic Lying:
Ariosto, Ludovico (1)
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Beecher, Lyman (1)
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Bible (1)
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Billings, Josh (1)
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Burke, Edmund (1)
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Corneille, Pierre (2)
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Dryden, John (1)
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Dunne, Finley Peter (1)
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Franklin, Benjamin (1)
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1)
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Goldsmith, Oliver (2)
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1)
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James, William (1)
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Johnson, Samuel (2)
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (2)
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Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1)
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Twain, Mark (1)
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