A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

For my part getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.

For my part getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.

Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.

You lie--under a mistake--
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given read more

You lie--under a mistake--
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given to a man's face, I now
Say what I think.

There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.

There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should read more

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.