Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

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

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

I lied all my life.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

A lie cannot live.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

I'm a really bad liar.