Quotes About Necessary Lies

#1. The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

Glen Duncan

#2. Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

Johnny Rich

#3. Parker sat for a long time on the ground in the alley behind the pool hall, examining his soul. He saw it as a spider web of facts and lies that was not at all important to him but which appeared to be necessary in spite of his opinion.

Flannery O'Connor

#4. On his tombstone only three words were necessary: HERE LIES VOLTAIRE

Will Durant

#5. I would not be concerned with the secrets, the lies, the mysteries, the facts. I would be concerned with what makes them necessary. What fear.

Anais Nin

#6. I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

Anatole France

#7. Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was marred only by those corruptions necessary to its enterprise.

Joshua Ferris

#8. Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

Mason Cooley

#9. Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

George R R Martin

#10. If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Aristotle.

#12. I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

Richard Chamberlain

#13. As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

Junipero Serra

#14. Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

Anne Rice

#15. That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. The goal, Karel said, was not to tell explicit lies but to destroy the distinction between the true and the false, so that lying becomes neither necessary nor possible.

Roger Scruton

#17. Love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

Emilie Du Chatelet

#18. The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

#19. Maybe now and then if it's absolutely necessary to cushion someone from a world gone too harsh and bitter.

Robert James Waller

#20. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

David Whyte

#21. Sometimes lies are most necessary with our friends.

Brent Weeks

#22. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Patrick Ness

#23. Lincoln's significance lies in his not hesitating before the most severe means, once they were found to be necessary, in achieving a great historic aim posed by the development of a young nation.

Leon Trotsky

#24. Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you?

John Dos Passos

#25. 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.

Derrick Jensen

#26. Olive Wellwood had the feeling writers often have when told perfect tales for fictions, that there was too much fact, too little space for the necessary insertion of inventions, which would here appear to be lies.

A.S. Byatt

#27. A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.

Christopher Buehlman

#28. The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

Paul Dirac

#30. Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

Maurice Nicoll

#31. Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.

Mark Lawrence

#32. Maybe illusion and artifice - lies, even - are a necessary part of romance.

Jody Gehrman

#33. I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#34. There is nothing more dangerous, nothing more powerful, nothing more necessary and essential for survival than the lies we tell ourselves. I

Megan Miranda

#35. In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Edward Abbey

#36. But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

Michael Grant

#37. Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'
The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'
Didn't you mean them?'
At the moment.

W. Somerset Maugham