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.

21.

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

22.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

26.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

36.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

37.

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

38.

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

39.

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

40.

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

Zohar

41.

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

42.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

43.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

44.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

45.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

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''

47.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth