Strategic Lying Quotes

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

When a majority could benefit only its enemies by telling the truth, history shows that honorable men often preferred to tell what is untrue.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.