Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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.

2.

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

Szilard, Leo

3.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

4.

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

5.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

6.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

7.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

8.

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

Voltaire

9.

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

Mcilvanney, William

10.

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

Zohar

11.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

13.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

Canetti, Elias

19.

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

Proverb, Russian

20.

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

Greene, Graham

21.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

22.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

23.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

24.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

Thirkell, Angela

29.

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

30.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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.

33.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

34.

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

35.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Frost, Robert

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

39.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

41.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Crisp, Quentin

42.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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

Feather, William

44.

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

45.

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