Edmund Burke Quotes

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.

I was a good liar as a child.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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

A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

A lie cannot live.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

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

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

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

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

... a lying son of a bitch.

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

Tell them I lied.