Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

Wherever a man is, there will be a lie.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

There are some men who lie even when telling the truth, for they tell it with their lips whilst they lie in their hearts.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

He lies. How can you trust a man who lies? You cannot. And any man who comes on the wireless and says, ‘I am going to tell you the truth’—well, what else can he be except a liar?

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.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.