Ariel Sharon Quotes

Lying can never save us from another lie.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

… the most transparent liar I have ever met

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

I don't mind scrutiny. What I don't like is lies.

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

A lie cannot live.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.