We are such accomplished liars because we get so much practice on ourselves.
Aug 202013
Lying
To a quite unwreckable Lie,
To a most impeccable Lie!
To a water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron, sunk-hinge, time-lock, steel-faced Lie!
Not a private hansom Lie,
But a pair-and-brougham Lie,
Not a little-place-at-Tooting, but a country-house-with-shooting
And a ring-fence-deer-park Lie.
—-Kipling
Jun 132013
The greater good is evil: the larger truth is a lie.
May 162013
To listen to people with talent, you might almost believe that there is no such thing.
Apr 302013
The stupid delude themselves that anything is possible; the clever, that whatever they cannot do cannot be done.
Apr 022013
Optimism is the philosophy of despair.
Mar 182013
We lie first about money, then about art; sex runs a distant third.
Mar 112013
Nothing is more exasperating than being lied to when both of you know and neither will admit it; yet this goes on all the time.
Jan 312013
It is the truth in the stereotype that is objectionable.
Jan 112013
Your terrible secret is that you have no terrible secret.
Jan 042013
The successful liar is never forgiven for showing us how tawdry the stories are in which we are eager to believe.