“There is no veracity in mendacity, there is no veridicality in mendicity.”
“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”
“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”
“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”
“One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction in the prevalent forms of mendacity.”
“Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.”