Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

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.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

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

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

A lie cannot live.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

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.

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

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.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

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.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

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

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.