Lying pays no tax. [ Proverb ]
None but cowards lie. [ Murphy ]
The truth in masquerade. [ Byron ]
Liars are verbal forgers. [ Chatfield ]
Lying rides on debt's back. [ Proverb ]
The gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Gossiping and lying go together. [ Proverb ]
Lies can destroy, but not create. [ Tupper ]
Perhaps
hinders folks from lying. [ Proverb ]
Past all shame, so past all truth. [ William Shakespeare ]
Lies exist only to be extinguished. [ Carlyle ]
Lying's a certain mark of cowardice. [ Southern ]
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. [ Proverb ]
Here lies the body of Johnny Haskell,
A lying, thieving, cheating rascal;
He always lied, and now he lies,
He has no soul and cannot rise. [ Epitaph ]
Lying, like license, has its degrees. [ George Sand ]
Be sure no lie can ever reach old age. [ Sophocles ]
A good memory is needed once we have lied. [ Corneille ]
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. [ Emerson ]
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! [ William Shakespeare ]
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood. [ William Shakespeare ]
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash.
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash -
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill:
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. [ Crabbe ]
Lying and stealing live next door to each other. [ Proverb ]
It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan. [ James A. Garfield ]
There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying. [ Pascal ]
A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. [ Tennyson ]
Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. [ Hazlitt ]
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. [ Epictetus ]
The second vice is lying, the first being that of owing money. [ Proverb ]
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. [ Holmes ]
A good faculty in lying is now-a-days a fair step to preferment. [ Proverb ]
Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. [ Edwin P. Whipple ]
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. [ Montaigne ]
The hardest time to lie to somebody is when they're expecting to be lied to. [ Alan Turing ]
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool. [ William Shakespeare ]
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide. [ Warburton ]
A lie is like a vizard, that may cover the face indeed, but can never become it. [ South ]
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity of man. [ Kant ]
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. [ Victor Hugo ]
I have cured her from lying in the hedge, quoth the good man when he married his daughter. [ Proverb ]
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie: he has to, to make the lie good for anything. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood. [ Shenstone ]
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, - it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. [ Carlyle ]
It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. [ Johnson ]
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. [ Coleridge ]
When thou are obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying and lying is the whole way to hell. [ William Penn ]
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious
detractor. [ Washington Allston ]
Yellow japanned buttercups and star-disked dandelions - just as we see them lying in the grass, like sparks that have leaped from the kindling sun of summer. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. [ Swift ]
No villainy or flagitious action was ever yet committed but, upon a due inquiry into the cause of it, it will be found that a lie was first or last the principal engine to effect it. [ South ]
D'Alembert tells us that Voltaire had always lying on his table the Petit Careme
of Massillon and the Tragedies
of Racine; the former to fix his taste in prose composition, and the latter in poetry. [ Dugald Stewart ]
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds. [ John Ruskin ]
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, What was that?
! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. [ Hazlitt ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]