“An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.”
"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed", The Century, Vol. 31, No. 2, December 1885 http://books.google.com/books?id=-1UiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA193. Anthologized in The American Claimant, and Other Stories and Sketches http://books.google.com/books?id=1T00Sc_cVYIC (1898)
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Who love my man, I'm a liar if I say I don't
But I'll quit my man, I'm a liar if I say I wont.”
Billie's Blues
“Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.”
Source: Lying
“We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt”
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
Scotland & The Scottish People https://books.google.com/books?id=NINHAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=scotland+%26+the+scottish+people&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIuKPUmZGkyAIVQ5qACh0kewz7#v=onepage&q=scotland%20%26%20the%20scottish%20people&f=false
Interview to "Ukrains'ka Pravda" https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/01/26/3692330/ (26 January 2009)
“Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.”
The Monthly Magazine
"Lies and consequences." in The American Prospect (19 May 2002) http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=lies_and_consequences&gId=6282
Context: To rationalize their lies, people — and the governments, churches, or terrorist cells they compose — are apt to regard their private interests and desires as just. Clinton may have lied to preserve his power while telling himself that he was lying to protect “the people” who benefited from his presidency. Liars — especially liars in power — often conflate their interest with the public interest. (What’s good for General Motors is good for the United States.) Or they consider their lies sanctified by the essential goodness they presume to embody, like terrorists who believe that murder is sanctified by the godliness of their aspirations. Sanctimony probably engenders at least as much lying as cynicism. We can’t condemn lying categorically, but we should categorically suspect it.