Luc de Clapiers Quotes

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

You know what lies are for.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable to the opponent.... The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.