Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle
10,822

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche
8,690
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
8,397

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte
7,558

True strength lies in gentleness.

Irish Proverb
6,985
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. -Martin Luther King Jr.
6,509

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the goodThat lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles
5,849

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles
5,819
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. -Sallust
3,955

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Samuel Butler
1,337

The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar
381
A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world. -Ariel Sharon
330

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken
307

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian
287
A liar is always lavish of oaths. -Pierre Corneille
278

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

Voltaire
261

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck
233
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. -Bernard M. Baruch
225

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda
201

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Douglas Malloch
198
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
197

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Francois Rabelais
191

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Mark Rutherford
170
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! -Sir Walter Scott
168

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Booth Luce
163

I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

John Clare
161
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. -Mark Twain
161

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Baltasar Gracian
160

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato
152
I would never lie. I willfully participate in a campaign of misinformation. -Fox Mulder
144