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| Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 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? | | Quentin Crisp | |
| People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. | | Otto von Bismarck | |
| Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' | | Charles M. Schulz | |
| That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not | | Thomas Paine | |
| The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. | | John Maynard Keynes | |
| The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. | | Theodor W. Adorno | |
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| The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie | | Ann Landers | |
| The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy. | | Richard Bach | |
| There are lies, damned lies and statistics. | | Mark Twain | |
| There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow | | Seneca | |
| Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible | | Thomas Paine | |
| Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. | | Eric Hoffer | |
