Leslie Stephen Quotes

A lie never lives to be old.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

Nobody can honestly say that they never 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.

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

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

I don't use the word 'lying' easily.

A lie cannot live.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

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

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

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and horror that I witness; I just digest it and spew it back, with venom.

Not all teammates tell the truth.

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

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I'm a really bad liar.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.