Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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.
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.