One must at least know what the lies are.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

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.

As a good rule of thumb, if you have to lie, you might be doing something wrong.

To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

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

Diplomacy: Lying in state.

“We must say the truth”.