“They say so” is half a lie.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.