J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

... the most notorious liar in the country.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

Cheating is only cheating when you get caught.

As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do.

As far as Ted Cruz, he's one of the greatest liars and biggest liars I've ever known.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.

Only the liar knows he's lying

Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

You can be the smartest person in the world - which Bill Clinton is, and if he's not, his wife is - and care more than anybody else in the world - which he does, I don't doubt that for a minute. And you can care so much that you're willing to be dishonest - you can tell people one thing but do another because you really know it's for their own good. And you'll still screw it all up. Because the whole premise of what you're doing is wrong!

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.