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.

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

Phaedrus

2.

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

South, Bishop Robert

3.

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

Williams, Tennessee

4.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

5.

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

6.

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

Proust, Marcel

7.

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

Canetti, Elias

8.

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

Feather, William

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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.

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

16.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

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

Homer

18.

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

Frost, Robert

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

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

Haig, Alexander

22.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Speakes, Larry

31.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

32.

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

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

35.

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

Antrim, Minna

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

40.

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

Steiner, George

41.

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