No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

19.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

20.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

22.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

23.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

25.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

27.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

28.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

29.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

32.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

33.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

34.

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

35.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

36.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

37.

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

39.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

41.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

44.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

45.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

46.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

47.

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

48.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

49.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

50.

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar