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 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.

2.

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

Proust, Marcel

3.

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

Watt, James

4.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

Mcilvanney, William

6.

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

7.

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

Feather, William

8.

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

Byron, Lord

9.

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.

10.

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

Williams, Tennessee

11.

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

Simon, Paul

12.

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

South, Bishop Robert

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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

15.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

17.

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

Homer

18.

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

Thirkell, Angela

19.

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

Proverb, Russian

20.

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

21.

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

Phaedrus

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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

Proust, Marcel

27.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

28.

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

Speakes, Larry

29.

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.

30.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

32.

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

33.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Voltaire

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Haig, Alexander

40.

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

41.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

42.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

43.

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

44.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

48.

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

Frost, Robert

49.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.