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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Modern Painters · 1860

★ 1.9

Treatise · Economic literature

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

1950

★ 1.9

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Thomas Jefferson

1785

★ 2.0

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

There’s only one thing I hate more than lying: skim milk. Which is water that's lying about being milk.

Parks and Recreation · 2013

★ 2.0

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Theogony · 700 BC

★ 2.1

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

Lies, detrust, mixed messages...this is turning into a real marriage.

Face/Off · 1997

★ 2.1

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

If not becoming, don’t do it. If not true, don’t say it. Let these be your fixed principles.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 2.3

Scripture · Religious literature

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Exodus 20:16 · 1405 BC

★ 3.6

He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

1727

★ 3.6

Historical literature

Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.

1743

★ 3.6

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.

A Streetcar Named Desire · 1951

★ 3.9

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Phaedo · 360 BC

★ 4.0

Historical literature

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 4.9

It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

1892

★ 5.2

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

Sir Walter Scott

1808

★ 6.9