SWIFT, Jonathan: “He replied that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood”

Jonathan Swift (Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, novelist, poet and cleric): “He replied that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood” (Susan Ratcliffe, editor, “Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject”, Oxford University Press, 2000, page 223).