486 LYING LYING
Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.
| author = Herbert
| work = J acuta Prudentum.
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Heebebt—Church Porch.
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| text = <poem>Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle
which fits them all.
Holmes—Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. VI.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. IX. L. 412. Pope's
trans,
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| text = Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. III. L. 25
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For my part getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.
Hood—Morning Meditations.
Splendide mendax.
Splendidly mendacious.
Horace—Carmina. III. 11. 35.
Round numbers are always false.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Johnsoniana. Apothegms,
Sentiment, etc. From Hawkins' Collective
Edition.
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.
False in one thing, false in everything.
Law Maxim.
For no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper.
Qui ne sent point assez ferme de memoire, ne
se doit pas meler d'etre menteur.
Who is not sure of his memory should not
attempt lying.
Montaigne—Of Liars. Bk. I. Ch. IX.
| seealso = (See also Corneille)
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| text = <poem>Hercle audivi esse optimum mendacium.
Quicquid dei dicunt, id rectum est dicere.
By Hercules! I have often heard that your
piping-hot lie is the best of lies: what the gods
dictate, that is right.
Plautus—Mosteuaria. III. 1. 134.
Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying
to liars).
Plutarch, quoting Greek prov. used by Paulus jEmilius.
Some lie beneath the churchyard stone,
And some before the Speaker.
Praed—School and School Fellows.
I said in my haste, AH men are liars.
Psalms. CXV1. 11.
Mendacem memorem esse oportet.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of
good memory.
Quintilian. IV. 2. 91.
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| text = <poem>Ce mensonge immortel.
That immortal lie.
Rev. Pere de Ravignan. Found in Poujoulat's Sa Vie, ses (Euvres.
He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you
would think truth were a fool.
All's Well That Ends Well. Acl IV. Sc. 3.
L.283.
To lapse in fulness
Is sorer than to he for need, and falsehood
Is worse in kings than beggars.
Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 12.
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 63.
'Tis as easy as lying.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2.
L. 372.
These lies are like the father that begets them;
gross as a mountain, open, palpable.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act U. Sc. 4. L. 249.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
I grant you I was down and out of breath; and
so was he: but we rose both at an instant and
fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 149.
For my part, if a he may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 161.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the
vice of lying!
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 325.
Whose tongue soe'er speaks false,
Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.
King John. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 91.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 100.
Had I a heart for falsehood framed.
I ne'er could injure you.
R. B. Sheridan—The Duenna. Act I. Sc. 5.
This shows that liars ought to have good
memories.
Algernon Sidney—Discourses on Government.
Ch. II. Sec. XV.
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| text = <poem>A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles—Acrisius. Frag. 59.
