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

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

Like many a man before him, he found himself forced into a lie because the truth simply would not be believed.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

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

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

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

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

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

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

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie

A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.