A collection of quotes on the topic of lye.
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part III: Strange Bedfellows, Lucrezia Borgia
“763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Letter to Benjamin Rush, 4 April 1790. Alexander Biddle, Old Family Letters, Series A (Philadelphia: 1892), p. 55 http://books.google.com/books?id=5d8hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55
1790s
“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“Trojans beware, within some Mischief lyes;
Be what it will, Greeks bringing Gifts I fear.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Children and fooles cannot lye.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Children and fooles cannot lye.
“Ambush'd in grass, a deadly Serpent lyes.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
