Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Proust, Marcel

4.

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

Greene, Graham

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

Canetti, Elias

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

10.

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

Thirkell, Angela

11.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Zohar

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

18.

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

Mcilvanney, William

19.

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

20.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

21.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

22.

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

Homer

23.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

25.

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

26.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Watt, James

30.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

31.

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

Williams, Tennessee

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

34.

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

Armstrong, Robert

35.

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

Byron, Lord

36.

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

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Phaedrus

46.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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