Source: Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Misquote: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 302
“How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!”
Patricia Highsmith book Strangers on a Train
Source: Strangers on a Train
“Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Upon the Midnight Clear
“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”
Andrejs Dunkels (1939–1998)
cited in: Andrea Varsavsky, Iven Mareels, Mark Cook (2010). Epileptic Seizures and the EEG. p. 89
“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“A Lie,” p. 65
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic
Book 3, Chapter 5 “The Pale King’s Mercy” (p. 118)
The Elric Cycle, Elric of Melniboné (1972)
“How my soul hates This language,
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.”
George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus
Act I, scene 2.
Sardanapalus (1821)
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
. "The Rise of Lady Gaga." by Brian Hiatt, in Rolling Stone (11 June 2009): 57-61.
