Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

2.

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

4.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

5.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

6.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

7.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

8.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

9.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

10.

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

12.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

13.

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

14.

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

15.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

17.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

18.

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

20.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

21.

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

22.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

23.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

27.

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

29.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

30.

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.

Luce, Clare Boothe

31.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

32.

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.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

34.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

35.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

36.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

37.

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.

Rowland, Helen

38.

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.

Mailer, Norman

39.

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

40.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

41.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

42.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

43.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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.

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

47.

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.

Montague, C. E.

48.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

49.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister