Here are some other excellent quotes about lying:


From IClaudius by Robert Graves, referring to Sejanus
Sejanus was a liar but so fine a general of lies that he knew how to marshal them into an alert and disciplined formation.

Frederich Nietzsche
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Ayn Rand (AtlasShrugged)
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Jarod Kintz
She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her.

Leo Tolstoy (AnnaKarenina)
Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Adrienne Rich
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Winston Churchill
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminologicalinexactitudes?

Richard Armour
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.