“To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”
Source: Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo 308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
“An old dissembler who lived out his lie
Lies here as if he did not fear to die.”
"An Epitaph for Anyone", 1942 The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997, ISBN 0-804-00997-X
Epigrams

“In the lie of truth lies the truth.”
“Truth and Lie,” p. 66
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”

“He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.”
Source: The Queen of Attolia

“Men lie the most,
women tell the biggest lies.”