Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

I'd rather proliferate funny little rumors than not.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Four liars are about to be burned -A

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.