“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar.”
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) English writer of adventure novels
Dawn (1884), CHAPTER I
“Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
Herbert N. Casson (1869–1951) Canadian journalist and writer
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.”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 18: To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All, p. 311
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
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)
“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.
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Big Lies in Politics http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/05/22/big_lies_in_politics/page/full, 22 May 2012. <br class="br">2010s