Quotes about lying
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Serious Business http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/serious-business/
From the poems written in English
Republished on The Journey Home website.
The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami (Tulsi Books, 2010)
“I saw a sheet lying on the floor, it must have been a ghost that had passed out… So I kicked it.”
Do You Believe in Gosh?

Excerpt from Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II, To the Reader (Prefatory Remarks).
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism

and that’s how it all started.
[ Terry Oldes http://www.terryoldes.com/, A Barrel Full of Monkeys – OR – More Baggage Than Ann Miller Brought On the Love Boat, 2008-03-28, 2007-08-14, Starbooks Press http://www.starbookspress.com/, Sarasota, Florida, Foozie, http://www.missfoozie.com/terryoldes.htm]
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Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1973), pp. 77-78

“It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.”
Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 298.
La Calandria (c. 1507)
And all of the noise and the clamor in the library ceased, and there was a hush in the library, for all of the books knew who the real master of the library was.
"Ministers of Justice", Address delivered at the Eighty-Second Annual Convention of the Tennessee Bar Association at Gatlinburg, June 5, 1963; published in 31 Tennessee Law Review 1 (Fall 1963), p. 19.

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 84.

2011-04-01 http://dailynews.co.tz/home/?n=18633
2011

Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), pp. 112-113

As quoted in Mass Murder 'Normal' in World without God' http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/mass-murder-normal-in-world-without-god/, Worldnutdaily (2012-07-23)
"Ultima Ratio Regum"
The Still Centre (1939)
"Goodbye", line 1; p. 24.
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets (1945)

The American View, August 25, 2007 http://theamericanview.com/index.php?id=898
2000s, 2006-2009
p, 125
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)

Michael Odell, "This much I know: Griff Rhys Jones", The Guardian, November 5 2006.
Talking about holidays

“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
Book II, Ch. 17
Attributed

On the recent chemical attack in Syria, 5 September 2013 http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/09/05/obama-kerry-putin-syria-russia-g-20/2769683/ USA Today.co.uk
2011 - 2015

“"What," say you, "are you giving me advice? Indeed, have you already advised yourself, already corrected your own faults? Is this the reason why you have leisure to reform other men?" No, I am not so shameless as to undertake to cure my fellow-men when I am ill myself. I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital.”
Tu me' inquis 'mones? iam enim te ipse monuisti, iam correxisti? ideo aliorum emendationi vacas?' Non sum tam improbus ut curationes aeger obeam, sed, tamquam in eodem valetudinario iaceam, de communi tecum malo colloquor et remedia communico.
Tu me' inquis 'mones? iam enim te ipse monuisti, iam correxisti? ideo aliorum emendationi vacas?'
Non sum tam improbus ut curationes aeger obeam, sed, tamquam in eodem valetudinario iaceam, de communi tecum malo colloquor et remedia communico.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXVII

That bacon tray is always at the end of the buffet, you always regret all the stuff on your plate. "What am I doing with all this worthless fruit? I should have waited! If I had known you were here I would've waited...."
King Baby
"The Entry of Christ into Liverpool", from British Poetry since 1945 (1970), Ed. Edward Lucie-Smith.<p>
Source: Adam Nankervis, " A Stitch in time http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=707," in: Mousse Magazine.it, Issue 29, 2015
The Poetry of War 1939-45 ed. Ian Hamilton, London 1965
Carentan O Carentan, 1948

Source: Fragments from Reimarus: Consisting of Brief Critical Remarks on the Object of Jesus and His Disciples as Seen in the New Testament, p. 75

2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20041012215227/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20042.html Popimage interview
On himself

Alice Evans' May 2007 Glamour Magazine column "Do I Dare to Bare".
“All women love a good geek, and those who tell you otherwise are lying.”
"Evan Schoenberg of Adium X" http://web.archive.org/web/20080502060835/http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000306.html, interview on DrunkenBlog (2004-07-15)
Source: V. (1963), Chapter Eight

September 14, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“First stop lying, then start speaking the truth.”
Other

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

“It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.”
Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

6th part Experimental Science, Ch.2 Tr. Richard McKeon, Selections from Medieval Philosophers Vol.2 Roger Bacon to William of Ockham
Opus Majus, c. 1267

“He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.”
Book I, Ch. 9
Attributed
Variant: He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Variant: It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Description of the temple built by Shantidas Jhaveri. Mandelslo’s Travels In Western India (a.d.1638-9) https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.531053 p. 23-25

On producing new music, after shunning the music business for over two decades, as quoted in "The Billboard Q and A: Yusuf Islam" by Nigel Williamson, in Billboard Magazine (17 November 2006)

““You think Wexler is lying?”
“I think he’s fallible,” Byron had replied.”
Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 2 (p. 20)

“I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 2 “Squirrel and Moose” (p. 21).

On The Road To Find Out
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)

1926 – 1931
Source: 'Painting: from composition towards counter-composition'; in 'Painting and plastic art', De Stijl, series XIII, 73-4, 1926, pp. 17–18

“All governments are lying cocksuckers.”
Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks (2001)

'They're just literally lying': Google’s Eric Schmidt on cutting ties with conservative group http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/09/22/theyre-just-literally-lying-googles-eric-schmidt-on-cutting-ties-with-conservative-group in SFGate (22 September 2014).

“Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.”
Arguing that Toscanini and Furtwangler both went to extremes.
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 256-261 ISBN 0-575-04088-2

“It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.”
If the European Countries Impose Sanctions, They Will Be More Harmed than Us; If You Toy with Our National Pride, You Will Face a Firm Response http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1029.htm Feb. 2006.
Lying in politics

as quoted in "Legalize it all" https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/ Harper's Magazine, April 2016

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 1.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud

60 Minutes interview (2006)
How I became a Hindu (1982)

Source: Animal Gospel: Christian Faith as if Animals Mattered (1998), pp. 54-55

“For my part, getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.”
Morning Meditations (1839).
1830s

Exclusive Interview with Aron Ra – Public Speaker, Atheist Vlogger, and Activist https://conatusnews.com/interview-aron-ra-past-president-atheist-alliance-america/, Conatus News (May 17, 2017)

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

2000, Reaction to statements in Parliament from Senator Apisai Tora, 23-24 August 2005

Maiden speech, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1936.

Poem: The Jackdaw of Rheims http://www.bartleby.com/246/108.html
Interview with S. R. Rao at The Hindu, Nov 20 2002.

sic
Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers, p. 172, (1997), Brian King, ed. ISBN 096503240X

The Renaissance and Order Trans/formation 1, 1951; as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 113.
1950's

“Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.”
John, in Ch. 12
Brave New World (1932)

[Re: Real men don't attack straw men, MARC, openbsd-misc (Mailing list), http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119761726816776, 2007-12-14, 2017-04-20]

Source: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 1, Chapter 1: Fatigue; Lead paragraph

"Life Matters — Why get married when you could be happy?" http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/monday-11th-june-2012/4058590 (11 June 2012 9:00AM), ABC, Australia

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter V, Sec. 2

Kerry uttered these words, not knowing there was a microphone recording it March 12, 2004 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1079091913092_74501113/?hub=World

[Price, Robert M., w:Robert M. Price, Christ a Fiction, https://infidels.org/library/modern/robert_price/fiction.html, 27 November 2016, 1997]

The Confession (c. 452?)

entitled Surf's Down Forever, p. 207
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)

Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 1

March 31, 1778, p. 372
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“At no time there is more lying than before the elections, during the war and after the hunt.”
The earliest attestation is: A representative of the "Löwe faction" also aptly remarked: "There is never more lying than before the elections, during the war and after the hunt.", in: Im neuen Reich. Wochenschrift für das Leben des deutschen Volkes in Staat, Wissenschaft und Kunst. Volume 9 (1879), 1st semivolume, p. 199 books.google http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=TO0aAAAAYAAJ&q=jagd.
The witticism was first attributed to Bismarck in printed form, as far as it is clear, in Zeitschrift für Bekämpfung der Geschlechtskrankheiten. Im Auftrage der Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung der Geschlechtskrankheiten. Volume 2 (1904) p. 283 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=ZwETAQAAMAAJ&q=jagd: "[...] when Bismarck would have repeated his well-known word about the instances in which the most lying occurs, out of the three mentioned by him (before an election, during a war, after a hunt), he would certainly have to put pelvic inflammatory disease in women first."
Before this, it always went without naming an author as a "witticism" in 1895 http://books.google.de/books?id=stoYAQAAIAAJ&q=gelogen, as "the proverbial answer to the question when the most lying occurs" in 1897 http://books.google.de/books?id=ZkoxAQAAMAAJ&q=gelogen, as "an old story" in 1898 http://books.google.de/books?id=LzkZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22einer+jagd%22 and as "what one usually says" in 1901 http://books.google.de/books?id=sjsZAAAAYAAJ&q=gelogen. Die Neue Zeit - Wochenschrift der deutschen Sozialdemokratie even spoke of a "self-admission" of Bismarck in 1906 http://books.google.de/books?id=YtY5AQAAMAAJ&q=gelogen; however, the fellow social democratic magazine Das freie Wort attributed it to an unnamed representative of the Zentrumspartei in that same year http://books.google.de/books?id=LjQ8AQAAIAAJ&q=%22mehr+gelogen%22.
Misattributed
Original: "Es wird niemals so viel gelogen wie vor der Wahl, während des Krieges und nach der Jagd."

“No more lying friends wanting tragic ends,
Though they do pretend,
They won't go when I go.”
They Won't Go When I Go
Song lyrics, Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)

version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands): Ik pakte mijn rommeltje en ging op een goeden dag naar [c. 1834-36]. Daar zag ik ergens een man uit het venster liggen. Boer! zijn hier in de buurt ook kamers te huur? - Jawel meneer, hier zelfs. - Ik ging naar binnen, zag een mooie, geschikte schilderkamer; dat was mij genoeg, ik vraag naar niets meer. Honderdvijftig gulden was de huur [per jaar]. Ik bood honderdzestig als hij dan ook den tuin bewerkte en vooral veel roode kool plantte, want die zie ik graag.
p. 78
1880's, Johannes Warnardus Bilders' (1887/1900)

“Everard sighed, switched off his conscience, and began lying.”
Delenda Est (p. 203)
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