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Updated: May 18, 2025
As soon as the door had closed behind the haberdasher, Celeste began to laugh in her impudent way: "What a lot of fibs you told her! I don't believe that her child so much as caught a cold," she exclaimed. La Couteau began by assuming a dignified air: "Say that I'm a liar at once. The child isn't well, I assure you." The maid's gayety only increased at this.
Altogether she looked adorable, and about fourteen years old, instead of nearly nineteen, as she is. "You don't show your headache a bit," said I. "I haven't got one," said she. Then she explained that she'd been dying for a chance to talk with me alone, and the headache was the only thing that occurred to her in the circumstances. She doesn't mind little fibs, you know.
"I beg to differ. Excuse me" "Not at all," answered Joe, laughing. "Only we have old-fashioned prejudices at home. We begin by expecting to be believed, and are sometimes a good deal annoyed if any one says we are telling fibs." "Of course, if you put it in that way," said Vancouver. "But I suppose it is not a very bad fib to say one's country is the greatest on earth.
We share our toffy; go halves at the tuck-shop; do each other's exercises; prompt each other with the word in construing or repetition; and tell the most frightful fibs to prevent each other from being found out. We meet each other in public. Ware a fight! Get them into different parts of the room! Our friends hustle round us.
"Ah," said Debriseau, laughing, "he thinks his mamma is giving him his tea." "The lying little rascal told me this morning that he had no mother. Have you a mother, or do you tell fibs in your sleep as well as awake? `Be honest." The last words that Willy had heard repeated so often during the day not only unsealed his eyes, but recalled to his recollection where he was.
If you tell her the truth, which of course I should do did I tell her anything, my request is virtually frustrated, and I shall be the talk of the county. You, I know, don't think telling fibs is immoral when it happens to be convenient, as it would be in this case. I expect to be absent a year or eighteen months; if I prolong my travels it shall be in the way you proposed.
I am not aware of having told a single untruth since 1851, with the exception, of course, of the harmless stories and polite fibs which all casuists permit, as also the literary evasions which, in the interests of a higher truth, must be used to make up a well-poised phrase, or to avoid a still greater misfortune that of stabbing an author. Thus, for instance, a poet brings you some verses.
In book after book he indulges in the same practical jokes upon parents, teachers, and all those in authority; brags, fibs, fights, plays truant, learns to swear and smoke, with the same devices and consequences; suffers from the same agonies of shyness, the same indifference to the female sex, the same awkward inclination toward particular little girls.
There is a passage in one of the dialogues, De Oratore, which has been continually quoted against him because the word "fibs" has been used with approval. The orator is told how it may become him to garnish his good story with little white lies "mendaciunculis." The advice does not indeed refer to facts, or to evidence, or to arguments.
Don't tell fibs, Arthur; you have not stopped away from here for a day and a half in order to write letters. What is the matter with you?" "Well, if you must know, Mildred, I detest your friend Lord Minster, the mere sight of him sets my teeth on edge, and I did not want to meet him. I only came here to-day because Lady Florence told me that they were going up to the Convent this afternoon."
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