I said in my haste, All men are liars. Psalms 116:11
What shall be given unto thee? Or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? Psalms 120:3
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight. Proverbs 12:19-22
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Proverbs 13:5
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. Proverbs 14:5&25
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. Proverbs 19:5&9&22
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Proverbs 25:17&18
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God …
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. Acts 5:1-5
Let God be true, but every man a liar. Romans 3:4
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:25&28&29
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings. Colossians 3:9
See, how they invent lies about Allah! That of itself is flagrant sin. Koran 4:50
Do not tell lies for there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will not be uncovered. Gospel of Thomas
But when the results came out from senior scientists which essentially said that the polygraph is not only a worthless tool but it might be worse than worthless because it tends to misclassify truth-tellers as liars, that didn’t go over very well. Dr Zelecov, polygraph study on scientific usefulness
The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another. Elizabeth Bear
And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but
The truth in masquerade. Lord Byron, Don Juan XI:37
For no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper. John Milton, Paradise Lost IV:811
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will; for wisdom never lies. Homer, The Odyssey III:25
You may not lie unless the truth would lead to an even greater sin. Le Moine [The Monk] 2011 starring Vincent Cassel & Deborah Francois & Josephine Japy & Sergi Lopez & Catherine Mouchet & Jordi Dauder & Frederic Noaille & Roxane Duran & Javivi et al, director Dominik Moll
If there is one thing I hate more than the Mafia it is a liar. I wish the Mafia would go out and kill all the liars and bury them all in my yard. The Office US: Mafia s6e6, Michael to camera, NBC 2009
It’s awfully easy to lie when you know that you’re trusted implicitly. So very easy. And so very degrading. Brief Encounter 1946 starring Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard & Stanley Holloway & Joyce Carey & Cyril Raymond & Everley Gregg & Marjorie Mars & Margaret Barton & Alfie Bass & Wallace Bosco & Sydney Bromley et al, director David Lean
‘O J’s attorney arranged for him to take a secret polygraph test. O J failed that test – minus 22, virtually the worst score you could get.’ The Secret Tapes of O J Simpson, Lawrence Schiller, CI 2015
The organized lying practised by totalitarian states is not, as is sometimes claimed, a temporary expedient of the same nature as military deception. It is something integral to totalitarianism, something that would still continue even if concentration camps and secret police forces had ceased to be necessary. George Orwell, Books v Cigarettes
But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy. Ellen Wittlinger, Parrotfish
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato
Hiding the truth from the conscious mind the better to hide it from others. In our own species we recognize that shifty eyes, sweaty palms and croaky voices may indicate the stress that accompanies conscious knowledge of attempted deception. By becoming unconscious of its deception, the deceiver hides these signs from the observer. He or she can lie without the nervousness that accompanies deception. Robert Trivers, Social Evolution
I have many a time, in this stand, dared the world to produce as mean devils as we can; we can beat them at anything. We have the greatest and smoothest liars in the world, the cunningest and most adroit thieves, and any other shade of character that you can mention ... I can produce Elders here who can shave their smartest shavers, and take their money from them. We can beat the world at any game. Brigham Young, second Mormon prophet, Journal of Discourses IV:77
History is a pack of lies we play to the dead. Voltaire
I keep reading between the lies. Goodman Ace
One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they’re being lied to. Robert Fisk
‘Here in Venezuela and the rest of Latin America we were being taken over by the savage project of neo-liberalism with its claim that there’s a hidden hand which regulates the market. It’s a lie, a lie! A lie a thousand times over! Of course there are alternatives and we in Venezuela we are proving it! The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Chavez: Inside the Coup, Chavez to crowd, 2003
Like millions of others, I now bitterly resent that a prime minister [Tony Blair] could use such a farrago of lies and manipulation to deceive us and to take the nation into war so dishonestly. Michael Meacher, The Guardian 1st December 2006
‘It turns out it’s all about rationalisation.’ (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies, Dr Dan Ariely, 2015
‘On the one hand we want to look in the mirror and think that we’re good honest wonderful people; on the other hand we want to benefit selfishly from being dishonest. As long as we cheat just a little bit we don’t have to pay any price in terms of the image and the way we view ourselves: we call this the Fudge Factor.’ ibid.