“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
“You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar.”
Dawn (1884), CHAPTER I
“Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.”
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
Herbert N. Casson in: National Printer Journalist Vol 51 (1933), Nr. 7-12. p. 28; Cited in Arthur Tremain (1951) Successful Retailing: A Handbook for Store Owners and Managers p. xi
1920s-1940s
“Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.”
Source: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 18: To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All, p. 311
Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement in the House of Commons (16 December 1852)
“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.
Clariste, act III, scene v.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
Source: The Prisoner of Heaven
“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.
Big Lies in Politics http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/05/22/big_lies_in_politics/page/full, 22 May 2012.
2010s
