Horace Quotes

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

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

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

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

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.

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 contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

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

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

The world loves to be deceived.

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

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

A lie cannot live.

Weaklings must lie.

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

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

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

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.