George Villiers Quotes

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

Lies require commitment.

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.

The world makes liars of us all.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

You know what lies are for.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

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

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

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

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

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

I would like to say that to mislead the youth is not only deceit but a crime.

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.