Samuel Butler Lying Quotations

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with