Subject: Beliefs » Honesty » Lies (Page 2)

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.


A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart. and cannot make a good soup.

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

He will even tell a lie when it is not convenient to.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

No matter how often the lie is shown to be false, there will still remain a percentage of people who believe it true.

Jake: You lied to me.
Elwood: It wasn't a lie, it was just bullshit.

(1952 – ) Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter & singer

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans; if they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and even if he caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

What you take for lying in an Irishman is only his attempt to put an herbaceous border on stark reality.

(1878 – 1957) Irish poet, author, athlete & politician

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

MSI Owner Denies Lying, Admits Not Telling Truth

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, "Have you read…"

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

I think that people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

It takes two to lie, Marge. One to lie and one to listen.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist