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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. (Milne A. A.)
If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it. (Milne A. A.)
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. (Milne A. A.)
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. (Milne A. A.)
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. (Milne A. A.)
I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another. (Milne A. A.)
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual. (Milne A. A.)
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man. (Milne A. A.)
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. (Milne A. A.)
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. (Milne A. A.)
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. (Milne A. A.)
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. (Milne A. A.)
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. (Milne A. A.)
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. (Milne A. A.)
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. (Milne A. A.)
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. (Milne A. A.)
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. (Milne A. A.)
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. (Milne A. A.)
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. (Milne A. A.)
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. (Milne A. A.)
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie. (Milne A. A.)
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