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.

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

18.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Greene, Graham

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Feather, William

25.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

26.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

27.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

33.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

34.

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

Merlin

35.

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

Homer

36.

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

Szilard, Leo

37.

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

38.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

39.

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

Watt, James

40.

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

41.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

42.

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

43.

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

South, Bishop Robert

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Williams, Tennessee

47.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

48.

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

Thirkell, Angela

49.

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.

50.

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

Phaedrus