Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

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

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

A lie cannot live.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

A half truth is a whole lie.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

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.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

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.

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

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

Lies require commitment.