Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

I don't like being lied to.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.