
“You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar.”
Dawn (1884), CHAPTER I
Source: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 18: To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All, p. 311
“You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar.”
Dawn (1884), CHAPTER I
“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.
Clariste, act III, scene v.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
“Liars … when they speak the truth they are not believed.”
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”
A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.
Virginia, II, 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 485.
The Corruptions of Our Time, p. 249
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“Success has always been a great liar”
“I don't think he's a liar, just a fantasist. He says whatever he likes, and then he believes it.”
On Tony Blair
“The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.”
Source: Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002), Chapter Four, Ethics And Propaganda, p. 149