lying quotes

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Ephesians 4:25^6.

Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

There are two ways you can tell when a man is lying†when he says he can drink champagne all night and not get drunk†[and] when he says he understands Russians.

- Charles Eustis Bohlen
Quoted in the NewYork Times, 26 Dec1993.

Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

- Samuel Butler
  The Way of  All Flesh, ch.39.

By the time you say you're his, Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Not So Deep as AWell,'Unfortunate Coincidence'.

This is what forty looks like.We've been lying so long who would know?

- Gloria Steinem
c.1974  Response when complimented by a reporter on not looking forty years old, quoted by Lisa Jardine in'Still Angry AfterAllTheseYears', in the SundayTimes,15 May1994.