Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.