"Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth." - Gertrude Atherton, The Conqueror

"Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented." - Georges Brague, Pensées sur l'art

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in Time

"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another." - Homer

"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth." - Samuel Johnson

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All-too-Human

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else." - George Bernard Shaw

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

"A lie never lives to be old." - Sophocles

"The cruellest lies are often told in silence." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." - Jerome, Jerome K.

"Mendacem memorem esse opportet. ( 'A liar should have a good memory.')" - Quintilian [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus] in 'De Institutione Oratoria', book I, 8, 14