Edgar Degas Quotes

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

I mean you last as long as lies.

The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.