Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

- Armstrong, Robert

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

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

Zohar

3.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

4.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

5.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

6.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

7.

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.

Milosz, Ceslaw

8.

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

9.

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.

Franklin, Billy Boy

10.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

11.

Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it.

12.

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

13.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

14.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

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

Proust, Marcel

16.

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

17.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

18.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Antrim, Minna

20.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

21.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Russian

24.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Crowley, Aleister

26.

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

Steiner, George

27.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

28.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

29.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

30.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

31.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

34.

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

35.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

38.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

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.

46.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

47.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

48.

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

Mcilvanney, William

49.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

50.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre