“This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
כָּךְ עוֹנְשׁוֹ שֶׁל בַּדַּאי, שֶׁאֲפִילּוּ אָמַר אֱמֶת אֵין שׁוֹמְעִין לוֹ
“Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.”
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”
“If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.”
“It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.”
“I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.”
“That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.”
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
“The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.”
“Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.”
“One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.”
“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”
“A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.”
“Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.”
“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”
“The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.”
“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.”
“If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.”
“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”
“If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.”
“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.”
“In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.”
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
“If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.”
“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.”
“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
“Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.”
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.”