Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

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.

At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

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.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

Stop lying about my record.

A falsehood, to have its full and lasting effect, must contain a fraction of a grain of truth.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

If Michael Flynn lost his job because of a gradual erosion of trust, shouldn't the easy and frequent production of official statements that are so many connecting flights from the truth also be concerning?

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

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

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.