Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Crisp, Quentin

18.

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.

19.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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''

26.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Homer

28.

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

29.

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

Crowley, Aleister

30.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

31.

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

Zohar

32.

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

33.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Simon, Paul

36.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

37.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

38.

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

Feather, William

39.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

40.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

42.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Montague, C. E.

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

45.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.