Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Mailer, Norman

17.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

19.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

20.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

22.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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''

24.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

25.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

26.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

28.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

29.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

30.

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

31.

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

32.

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

Homer

33.

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

Proust, Marcel

34.

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

Zohar

35.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

36.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

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

Armstrong, Robert

39.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

43.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

44.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

45.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

46.

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

47.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

48.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

49.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

50.

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