Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.

There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.

And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.

And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

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

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

Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.

Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.

Splendidly mendacious.
[Lat., Splendide mendax.]

Splendidly mendacious.
[Lat., Splendide mendax.]

I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies!
If captains the remark, or critics, make,
Why they read more

I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies!
If captains the remark, or critics, make,
Why they lie also--under a mistake.