One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

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.

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

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.