Alexander Pope Quotes

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

Politicians are better liars than writers.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

In my lifetime I have never seen such a volume of deceiving and dissembling.

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

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

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

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

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.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.