Quotes:
"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."
- Voltaire
"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on."
- James Watt
"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company."
- Oscar Wilde
"As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection."
- Oscar Wilde
"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
- Tennessee Williams
"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t."
- Mark Twain
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