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There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his
sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was
rather lonely for him all day, so he thought upon a plan
by which he could get a little company and some
excitement. He rushed down towards the village calling
out "Wolf, Wolf," and the villagers came out to meet him,
and some of them stopped with him for a considerable
time. This pleased the boy so much that a few days
afterwards he tried the same trick, and again the villagers
came to his help. But shortly after this a Wolf actually
did come out from the forest, and began to worry the
sheep, and the boy of course cried out "Wolf, Wolf,"
still louder than before. But this time the villagers, who
had been fooled twice before, thought the boy was again
deceiving them, and nobody stirred to come to his help.
So the Wolf made a good meal off the boy’s flock, and
when the boy complained, the wise man of the village
said: "A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks
the truth."
--Ζsop (c. 620 B.C.—c. 560 B.C.)
(Thought to be a legendary figure.)
"The Shepherd's Boy" in _Ζsop's Fables_.

[Of Lady Desborough:]
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
--Margot Asquith [Emma Alice Margaret Asquith] (1864—1945)
British political hostess.
"Listener" [11 June 1953]

He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty
with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.
--Augustine, St. of Hippo (354—430)
Christian theologian and bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa [396—430].
Attributed in Charles Varle
_Moral Encyclopaedia, Or, Varlι's Self-Instructor_ [1831].

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
"Ornamental Rationalia, of Elegant Sentences" in _Essays_ [1625].

Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among
the most dangerous of errors, because being so near
truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
Attributed in Tryon Edwards
_A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 149 [1908 ed.].

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Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;
Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth,
Had kept a strict regard for truth,
Attempted to believe Matilda;
The effort very nearly killed her.
[...]
For every time she shouted "Fire!"
They only answered "Little liar!"
And therefore when her aunt returned,
Matilda, and the house, were burned.

--Hilaire Belloc (1870—1953)
British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist.
"Matilda" in _Cautionary Tales for Children_ [1907].

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The most serious doubt that has been thrown on
the authenticity of the biblical miracles is the fact
that most of the witnesses in regard to them were
fishermen.
--Arthur Binstead (1861—1914)
British journalist.
_Pitcher's Proverbs_ [1909]

People never lie so much as after a hunt,
during a war or before an election.
--attributed to Otto von Bismarck (1815—1898)
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia 1862—1890.
He unified Germany with a series of successful wars and
became the first Chancellor 1871—1890 of the German Empire.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five
and would remain so for many years.
--Anita Brookner (b. 1928)
British novelist and art historian.
_Hotel du Lac_ [1984]

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging
his superiority whenever we lie to him.
--Samuel Butler (1835—1902)
English novelist, essayist, and critic.
_The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, ch. 19, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1907].

I begin to smell a rat.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 1, bk. 4, ch. 10 [1605]

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always
harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will
only be a greater knave as he grows older.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [17 May 1750].

There are some people who state that the exterior,
sex, or physique of another person is indifferent to
them, that they care only for the communion of
mind with mind; but these people need not detain
us. There are some statements that no one ever
thinks of believing, however often they are made.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_The Defendant_ [1901] "A Defence of Ugly Things"

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
_De divinatione_ (On Divination), II, 71 [44 B.C.], as quoted in Kate Louise
Roberts _Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 485 [1922].

Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
_Christabel_, pt. II [1800]

We swallow at one gulp a lie which flatters
us, but only drop by drop a truth which is
bitter to us.
--Denis Diderot (1713—1784)
French writer and philosopher.
Attributed in Rev. James Wood (ed.)
_Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 529 [1893].

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply
ingrained than lying to others.
--attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881)
Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.

The little bit of truth contained in many
a lie is what makes them so terrible.
--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830—1916)
Austrian writer.
_Aphorisms_ [1880-1905], tr. David Scrase and Wolfgang Mieder [1994]

Whoever is careless with truth in small matters
cannot be trusted in important affairs.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
From an April 1955 draft of a television address to be delivered on occasion
of the seventh anniversary of Israel's independence; as quoted in Alice
Calaprice & Freeman Dyson _The Ultimate Quotable Einstein_ [2010].

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of
suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health
of human society.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Prudence_ [1841]

When we risk no contradiction,
It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
--John Gay (1685—1732)
English poet and dramatist.
"The Elephant and the Bookseller" in _Fables_, pt. 1 [1727].

[Catchphrase of Maxwell Smart (Don Adams):]
Would you believe ...
--"Get Smart" [American TV show 1965-70]

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As ten millions of circles can never make a square,
so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the
smallest foundation to falsehood.
--Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.
_The Vicar of Wakefield_, ch. 8 [1766]


Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
--Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.
_She Stoops to Conquer_ [1773]

& see:

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
"A Smuggler's Song" [1906]

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Words, so innocent and powerless as they are,
as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good
and evil they become, in the hands of one who
knows how to combine them.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
Entry of 18 May 1848 in "Note-Books"
pub. in _The Atlantic Monthly_ [December 1866].

[O]nce a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might
as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen
to the wind.
--Robert A(nson) Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_Citizen of the Galaxy_ [1957]

Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.
--George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.
_Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640]

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By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated,
it is possible to make people believe that heaven
is hell—and hell heaven. The greater the lie,
the more readily it will be believed.
--Adolf Hitler (1889—1945)
German dictator.
_Mein Kampf_ (My Battle) [1925]


The broad mass of a nation ... will more easily
fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
--Adolf Hitler (1889—1945)
German dictator.
_Mein Kampf_ (My Battle) [1925]

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is
the handle which fits them all.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_, ch. 6 [1858]

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the
man who hides one thing in his heart and
speaks another.
--Homer (c. 850? BC)
Greek epic poet.
_The Iliad_, bk. IX [c. 800 B.C.]

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from
telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.
_Country Town Sayings_ [1911]

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Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny
or refute the untrue things that are said of you is
an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the
doer, and the man who makes wrong statements
about others is himself to be pitied, not the man
he vilifies. It is better to be lied about than to
lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania".
_The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923]


The punishment of the liar is that he
eventually believes his own lies.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania".
_The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard_ p. 47, comp., Elbert Hubbard II [1927]

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Hope is the universal liar who never
loses his reputation for veracity.
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator known as "The Great Agnostic."
Speaking at the Manhattan Liberal Club [February 1892].

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it
much easier to do it a second and third time, till
at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without
attending to it, and truths without the world's
believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads
to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its
good dispositions.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to Peter Carr [19 August 1785].

It has always been the best policy to speak the truth —
unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
--Jerome K Jerome (1859—1927)
English novelist and playwright.
In "The Idler" [February 1892].

Boys, I may not know much, but I know the difference
between chicken shit and chicken salad.
--Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973)
American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969].
(When asked (as majority leader) if he took seriously
a particular speech by Vice President Nixon.
In David Halberstam _The Best and the Brightest_ [1972].

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A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than
one truth which he does not wish should be told.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
[April 1773] entry in James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].


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 (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ (13 June 1784) [1791].

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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
--Stephen King (b. 1947)
American author known for horror novels.
_Needful Things_ [1991]

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes
the worst are your own fears.
--attributed to Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every
ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort
of protective immunity, a kind of callousness,
toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.
--Nella Larsen (1893—1964)
American novelist.
_Quicksand_ [1928]

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
--Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781)
German dramatist.
_Nathan der Weise_, III, 6 [1779]

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].
In 1858 when debating Stephen Douglas, as attributed
in _U.S. News & World Report_, vol. 144 [2008].

The first rule of politics is not to lie to somebody
unless it is absolutely necessary.
--Russell B. Long (1918—2003)
American politician; senator from Louisiana [1948-1987].
Attributed, as quoted in Bill Swainson (ed.) _Encarta Book of Quotations_ [2000].

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by
guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people
who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they
are doing.
--Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (1753—1821)
French diplomat and writer.
The Count, in _Les Soirιes de Saint-Pιtersbourg,_ [1821] "First Dialogue"

If it is not right, do not do it;
if it is not true, do not say it.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_, Book XII, Number 17

[Of Lillian Hellman:]
Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
--Mary McCarthy (1912—1989)
American novelist.
In "New York Times" [16 February 1980].

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he
knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Notes on Democracy_ [1926]

The best apology against false accusers is
silence and sufferance, and honest deeds
set against dishonest words.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.
_An Apology for Smectymnuus_ [1642]

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If falsehood had, like truth, only one face, we should be
on more equal terms with it, for we should consider the
contrary to what the liar said as certain; but the reverse
of truth has a hundred thousand forms, and is a field of
boundless extent.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) [pub. 1580—1588], bk. I Ch. IX "Of Liars"


It is not without good reason said, that he who has not
a good memory should never take upon him the trade
of lying.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) [pub. 1580—1588], bk. I Ch. IX "Of Liars"


Lying is a hateful and accursed vice. We have no other tie upon
one another, but our word. If we did but discover the horror and
consequence of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and
more justly than other crimes.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 322 [1908 ed.].

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Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf"
came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf
at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came
crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.
--Vladimir Nabokov [pen name Vladimir Sirin] (1899—1977)
Russian-born American novelist.
"Good Readers and Good Writers" in _Lectures on Literature_ [1980].

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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset
that from now on I can't believe you.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1885-86]


The most common sort of lie is
the one uttered to one's self.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Twilight of the Idols_ [1888]

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Start a lie and a truth together, like hare and hound: the lie
will run fast and smooth, and no man will ever turn it aside;
but at the truth most hands will fling a stone, and so hinder
it for sport's sake, if they can.
--Ouida [Maria Louise de la Ramιe] (1839—1908)
English novelist.
_Signa_ [1875]

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
--Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
French mathematician, physicist, and moralist.
_Pensιes_ ("Thoughts"), VI, 32 [1670]

144. Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure to speak
the Truth: For Equivocation is *half way* to Lying, as
Lying, *the whole way to Hell.*
--William Penn (1644—1718)
Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw
the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as
a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.
_Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims_ [1682]

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
--Quintilian (c. 35—100)
Roman rhetorician.
_Institutio Oratoria_ IV, 2, 91 [c. 95]

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
--Franηois Rabelais (c. 1494— c. 1553]
French humanist, satirist, and physician.
_Gargantua and Pantagruel_ bk. III, ch. V [1548]

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment
in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
--Helen Rowland (1875—1950)
American writer.
_A Guide to Men_ "Syncopations" [1922], as quoted in Robert
Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 521 [1993].

One of the oil men in heaven started a rumor of a gusher
down in hell. All the other oil men left in a hurry for hell.
As he gets to thinking about the rumor he had started he
says to himself there might be something in it after all.
So he leaves for hell in a hurry.
--Carl Sandburg (1878—1967)
American poet.
_The People, Yes_, #45

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
--Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832)
Scottish novelist and poet.
"Marmion", Canto vi. Stanza 17 [1808]

I would offend with the truth then please with adulation.
--attributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.

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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one;
Take honour from me, and my life is done.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Richard II_, I, i [1595]


No legacy is so rich as honesty.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_All's Well That Ends Well_, III, v [1602-04]


Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Othello_, III, iii [1604-05]

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that
he is not believed, but that he cannot believe
anyone else.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish dramatist and critic.
_The Quintessence of Ibsenism_, ch. 4 [1890]

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"Sick"
by Shel Silverstein (1930—1999)
Ameican poet and songwriter.

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . . Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

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If you want the truth to go round the world you
must hire an express train to pull it; but if you
want a lie to go round the world. it will fly; it
is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go
round the world while truth is putting its boots
on.'
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834—1892)
English nonconformist preacher.
_Gems from Spurgeon_ [1859]

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
_Virginibus Puerisque_, ch. 4 [1881]

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat
at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and
obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and
I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Walden_ [1854], "Conclusion"

You've got to be able to count on a man's word, and
if you can't, forget it. ... I've had experience with the
other kind as well, and that's the worst thing there is.
A liar in public life is a lot more dangerous than a full,
paid up Communist, and I don't care who he is.
--Harry S. Truman (1884—1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945—1953].
Quoted in Merle Miller _Plain Speaking:
An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman_ [1974].

The best years of a woman's life —
the ten years between 39 and 40.
--attributed to Sophie Tucker (1884—1966)
American vaudeville artist.

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One of the most striking differences between a
cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894], ch. 7 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"


If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Mark Twain's Notebook_ [1935], edited by Albert Bigelow Paine.


Mark Twain loved to brag about his hunting and fishing exploits.
He once spent three weeks fishing in the Maine woods, regardless
of the fact it was the state's closed season for fishing. Relaxing in
the lounge car of the train on his return journey to New York, his
catch iced down in the baggage car, he looked for someone to
whom he could relate the story of his successful holiday. The
stranger to whom he began to boast of his sizable catch appeared
at first unresponsive, then positively grim. 'By the way, who are
you, sir?' inquired Twain airily. 'I'm the state game warden,' was
the unwelcome response. 'Who are you?' Twain nearly swallowed
his cigar. 'Well, to be perfectly truthful, warden,' he said hastily,
'I'm the biggest damn liar in the whole United States.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Jimmy Walker (1881—1946)
Mayor of New York City [1925-32].

When someone at a Board of Estimate meeting
shouted "liar" at him, Walker retorted, "Now that
you have identified yourself, we shall proceed."

--Michael E. Parrish
_Anxious Decades_, p. 160 [1992]

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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths,
but usually quarrel among themselves.
--Daniel Webster (1782—1852)
American orator and politician.
At the murder trial of John Duncan White & Winslow Curtis [1826].

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when
administered alone; but when blended with wholesome
ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.
--Richard Whately (1787—1863)
English philosopher and theologian.
_The Use And Abuse Of Party-Feeling In Matters Of Religion_, Lecture II [1822].

A man is justified in lying to protect the honor
of a woman or to promote public policy.
--Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924)
American Democratic statesman and President [1913—1921].
December 1912 remark to Col. Edward House, in Thomas A Bailey
_Presidential Greatness: The Image and the Man from George
Washington to the Present_ [1966].

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apocryphal (adjective) [κ-'pah-krκ-fκl]
Of unknown origin hence of questionable authenticity,
spurious; non-canonical; erroneous.

belie (verb) [bκ-'LI]
To show to be false, contradict, to misrepresent,
to give a false impression of.

calumny (noun)
A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander

canard [kuh-NAHRD], noun:
An unfounded, false, or fabricated report or story.

mendacious (adj.) [men-'dey-shκs ]
Lying, untruthful.

prevaricate (verb) [prκ-'vζ-rκ-keyt]
Misleading someone away from the truth by
concocting an inaccurate account of something.

putative (adjective) [PYOO-tuh-tiv]
Commonly supposed; assumed without conclusive grounds
for belief. The only other derivational relative is the adverb
"putatively." "Putative" is nearly synonymous with "reputed"
but carries a strong connotation of untruth much like
"supposed."

specious (adj.) ['spee-shκs]
Ostensibly true but, in fact, false, misleading;
deceptively attractive (language, gestures, and such).

spurious [SPU`RI-OUS]:
Not proceeding from the true source, or from the
source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.

tarradiddle [air-uh-DID-uhl], noun:
1. A petty falsehood; a fib.
2. Pretentious nonsense.

traduce [truh-DOOS; -DYOOS], transitive verb:
To expose to contempt or shame by means of false
statements or misrepresentation; to represent as
blamable; to vilify.


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