No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

The Liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

A lie cannot live.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

A liar has many points to his favour, — but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.