For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
The lie is a condition of life.
We are men of action, lies do not become us.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.