Michel de Montaigne Quotes

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

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

You know what lies are for.

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

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.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

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

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. 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.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

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.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

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

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.