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

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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.

2.

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

Proverb, Russian

3.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

4.

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

Haig, Alexander

5.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

6.

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

Proust, Marcel

7.

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.

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Phaedrus

10.

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

Armstrong, Robert

11.

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

Greene, Graham

12.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

13.

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.

14.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

15.

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

Szilard, Leo

16.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Watt, James

20.

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

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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''

29.

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

Mcilvanney, William

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Proust, Marcel

35.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

36.

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

Williams, Tennessee

37.

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

38.

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

Frost, Robert

39.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

40.

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

Zohar

41.

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

42.

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

Canetti, Elias

43.

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

44.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

45.

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