We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

Samuel Butler
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told. - Maggie Stiefvater

  2. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
 - Unknown

  3. I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. - Anne Rice

  4. I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every... - Philip Pullman

  5. How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail. - Jennifer Salaiz

More Quotes By Samuel Butler
  1. Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

  2. All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  3. Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...

  4. [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

  5. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Related Topics