Love and Lying Quotes

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

"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?" 

"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." 

"Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't." 

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

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

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

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables." 

"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." 

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

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

"Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie." 

"''They say'' is often a great liar." 

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time." 

"Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency." 

"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." 

"A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one." 

"Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable." 

"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." 

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

"I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie." 

"It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie." 

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