Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Watt, James

2.

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

Antrim, Minna

3.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

6.

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.

7.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

8.

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

9.

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

Greene, Graham

10.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

12.

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

13.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

14.

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

15.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

18.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

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''

20.

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

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

Frost, Robert

23.

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

Speakes, Larry

24.

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

Feather, William

25.

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

Phaedrus

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

29.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

30.

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

31.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

34.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Proust, Marcel

37.

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

Mcilvanney, William

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

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

Williams, Tennessee

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

43.

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

Armstrong, Robert

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

47.

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

Haig, Alexander

48.

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

Greene, Graham