Lies And Lying

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

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(465 votes)   Lying rides upon debt's back.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(396 votes)   It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Robert Armstrong

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(360 votes)   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.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(345 votes)   Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Vittorio Alfieri
1749-1803, Italian Poet, Playwright

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

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(329 votes)   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.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(325 votes)   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.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(312 votes)   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.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(311 votes)   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
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(305 votes)   Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(288 votes)   If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A. A. Milne
1882-1956, British Born American Writer

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(282 votes)   He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Graham Greene
1904-1991, British Novelist

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(280 votes)   He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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