Richard Whately Quotes

A lie cannot live.

A lie never lives to be old.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

Stop lying about my record.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

I mean you last as long as lies.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.