lying, n.Definitions

Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth.

Lying is a trade not to be undertaken by one who is not sure of his memory.

Lying is an act that increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Lying is a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

Lying is an unintended respect paid to the person one lies to in that it acts as a tacit acknowledgement of that person's superiority over oneself.

Lying is a kind of medicine without which one cannot console or relieve... to give relieve, one must keep a drug-shop of lies.

Lying is an essential condition for the functioning of language and life, inherent to langue itself because it consist merely of metaphors translating sensations into images and images into sounds.

Lying is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.