Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

3.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

4.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

5.

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

Szilard, Leo

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Phaedrus

11.

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

12.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Greene, Graham

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

16.

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

Antrim, Minna

17.

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

Homer

18.

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

Steiner, George

19.

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

Haig, Alexander

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

25.

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.

26.

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.

27.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

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

29.

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

Talmud, The

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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.

35.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

Voltaire

37.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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.

39.

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

South, Bishop Robert

40.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

42.

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