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Mark Twain Quotes about Lying

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

Lying, Boots, Half

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

Honesty, Lying, Animal

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.

Lying, Indulge In, Deception

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.28, Book Tree

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Lying, Half, Truth Is

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Sarcastic, Lying, Hats

Mark Twain (2016). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.152, Tyché

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Lying

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Truth, Lying, Race

Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Liars, Lying, Teaching

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Lying, Race, Care

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.97, Book Tree

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Motivational, Truth, Lying

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Lying, Deceit, Chance

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.74, eKitap Projesi

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Time, Lying, Society

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Funny, Lying, Humorous

The Autobiography of Mark Twain Chapter 29

God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

Lying, Dollars, Constitution

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Peace, Truth, Lying

Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.2818, e-artnow

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Lying, Said, Shows

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.235, Courier Corporation

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Truth, Lying, Believe

Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author’s Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…”, p.2794, e-artnow

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Wise, Children, Lying

Mark Twain (2008). “Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Lying, Different, Bears

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.237, Courier Corporation

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

Wise, Lying, Evil

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2133, GENERAL PRESS

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

Lying, Grieving, Space

Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author”, p.239

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

Travel, Lying, Vanity

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Lying

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.100, Book Tree

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Lying, Book, Age

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.234, Courier Corporation

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Beautiful, Lying, Perfection

"The Stolen White Elephant: Etc". Book by Mark Twain, p. 220-221, 1882.

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