Samuel Johnson Quotes

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.

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.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

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

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. 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.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

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

Your truths are worse than your lies.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

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

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

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

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

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

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

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.