Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

… a man well known for his congenital inability to tell the truth

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

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

A greater liar than the Parthians.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

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

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

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

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

If you're lying, you're lying.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

... the most notorious liar in the country.