Alfred Alder

• If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

C. E. Ares

• A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.

Elizabeth Bowen

• Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
• Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Paul Ekman

• Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

Anatole France

• Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

John Gay

• Sure men were born to lie, and women, to believe them.

Alexander Haig

• It is not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

H. L. Mencken

• The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Olin Miller

• A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

Montaige

• Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

William Shakespeare

• False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

George Bernard Shaw

• The liars punishment is, not in the least that he cannot be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Robert Louis Stevenson

• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Carl Sandburg

What sort of liar are you?

Which of these liars are you?