A fake is a fake, and Elmyr himself is a fake faker. ibid.
Irving’s book about Elmyr is the story of a man of talent taking the Mickey over those who had rejected him. ibid.
Art dealers either in ignorance, innocence or simple greed have made themselves fortunes on the paintings of Elmyr. ibid.
For the past seventeen minutes I’ve been lying my head off. ibid.
We have been forging an art story. ibid.
The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the Earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die in extremest agony than that one soul, I will not say will be lost but commit one venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth or should steal one farthing without excuse. Cardinal Newman, Apologia
This Pope ... He [the Pope] spreads the lie that condoms actually increase the incidence of AIDS. Stephen Fry with Christopher Hitchens v the Catholic Church, debate 2009
Bishops and Cardinals have consistently lied to us. Father Tom Doyle
People play games, friend. They lie, they lie. What can I do about lies? Leave us, I just beg you, please leave us. Bill, we will bother nobody. Anybody who wants to get out here can get out of here. Jim Jones to Congressman Ryan’s party
They [murderers] all lied on camera about the crimes they themselves committed. The Lying Game: Crimes that Fooled Britain, ITV 2014
Experts call this display of happiness Duping Delight. ibid.
Ian Huntley, Stuart Hazell, Mitchell Quy and Karen Matthews are some of the most notorious criminals of recent years. All convicted for different crimes but all with one thing in common – they all lied on camera about the crimes they themselves committed. ibid.
‘Liars will talk a lot but not about the event.’ ibid. clinical psychologist
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say goodnight to the bad guy. Scarface 1983 ***** starring Al Pacino & Michelle Pfeiffer & Steven Bauer & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Robert Loggia & Miria Colon & F Murray Abraham et al, director Brian de Palma, Tony leaving restaurant
I lie. When I’m drunk I lie. The Hustler 1961 starring Paul Newman & Jackie Gleason & Piper Laurie & George C Scott & Myron McCormick & Murray Hamilton & Stefan Gierasch et al, director Robert Rossen, her to him
I’ve always been a liar. Maltese Falcon 1941 starring Humphrey Bogart & Mary Astor & Gladys George & Peter Lorre & Barton MacLane & Lee Patrick & Sydney Greenstreet & Ward Bond & Jerome Cowan & Elisha Cook junior et al, director John Huston, Ruth to Spade
Big Daddy: Now tell me what are you disgusted with?
Brick: Mendacity. You know what that is? It’s liars and lies. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 starring Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor & Burl Ives & Judith Anderson & Jack Carson & Madeleine Sherwood & Larry Gates & Vaughn Taylor, director Richard Brooks
I’ve lived with mendacity. Now why can’t you live with it? You’ve got to live with it. There’s nothing to live with but mendacity. ibid.
To hell with all lies and all liars. ibid. Brick to Big Daddy
Somebody must be lying. ibid. Big Moma
What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Did you notice the powerful and obnoxious odour of mendacity in this room? ibid. Big Daddy
We are through with lies and liars in this house. ibid. Brick to Maggie
It’s no good, sir. I just can’t lie. Red Dwarf s4e1: Camille s4e1, BBC 2004
Don’t Nixon me, man. Tell me the truth. Red Dwarf s6e6: Out of Time, Lister to Kryten
It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself. Star Trek s3e2: The Enterprise Incident, Spock
I have never known Data to tell a lie. Yet. Star Trek: The Next Generation s4e14: Clues, Picard
Today you must stand before the world, with me and behind me, and solemnly declare we want nothing but peace, we want nothing but calm, we want only to devote ourselves to our duties. We also want nothing but equal rights. And we will not allow anyone to take away our honour. Adolf Hitler
Instead of wonderful weapons, desperate lies. Hitler’s Henchmen: Goebbels the Agitator
Renewed hostile actions against United States’ ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action in reply. Lyndon Baines Johnson
‘They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the children to die on the cold floor’ ... It was a masterful performance ... The young witness [Nayirah] had never been at the hospital ... The US bombing of Baghdad had begun. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States IX: Bush and Clinton – American Triumphalism – New World Order, Showtime 2012
[The Right] lie with impunity. Let’s face it. They’re liars. They lied about the reason they took our sons and daughters to war. They spend millions of dollars in campaign ads saying they are for a prescription drug benefit under Medicare while they work to destroy Medicare and replace it with private plans and HMOs. They call their dirty air legislation Clear Skies and their plan to give the timber companies our trees, Healthy Forests. They call their job-killing economic program a jobs program. They say they are for peace when they are for war. Millions of children are left behind under their miserly No Child Left Behind education bill. They tout a child tax credit for working families and then silently drop it in favor of more tax cuts for millionaires. Jan Schakowsky
As we are doing in Afghanistan, we will bring to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies and freedom. George W Bush
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. George W Bush
The danger to our country is grave. The danger to our country is growing. The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons. And according to the British government, the Iraqi regime can launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as forty-five minutes after the order were given. The regime has longstanding and continuing ties to terrorist organisations, and there are Al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq. The regime is seeking a nuclear bomb. And with fissile material can build one within a year. George W Bush
This president was not telling the truth either. The action in the Gulf of Tonkin was not unprovoked. Bill Moyers, The Secret Government: Constitution in Crisis, 1987
In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson falsely claimed that an attack on US gun-ships by North-Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin gave him no choice but to escalate the war in Vietnam. War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, 2007
During the Vietnam War 70% of all casualties were civilians. ibid.
I could now see that Johnson was continuing the pattern of presidential lying ... We were the wrong side. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, 2009
I’m not going to be part of this system of lying any more. ibid.
I consider myself one of England’s finest liars. Blackadder II: Money, Blackadder to Percy, with Baldrick, BBC 1986
Obama is notoriously a liar. He promised that he would get out of Iraq by I think within sixteen months at some point. Webster Tarpley, author & historian
Obama lied that America had gone to Iraq to bring freedom to that country. He announced that the troops were coming home. This was another deception. John Pilger, lecture Socialism Chicago 2009, ‘Power Illusion and America’s Last Taboo’; viz also website
America will never make concessions to terrorists. Ronald Reagan