Post #3024

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

—E. W. Rice

Post #2658

Lies can destroy, but not create.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Post #1562

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye,
Men will believe because they love the lie;
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown,
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
—Charles Churchill

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Post #1543

Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child, will upon the slightest temptation, tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.
—Joseph Priestley 

Post #1476

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered.
—Mark Twain

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Post #1390

He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
—Michel de Montaigne

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Post #1347

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Post #1310

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
—Blaise Pascal

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