Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Proverb, Russian

2.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

3.

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

4.

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

Greene, Graham

5.

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

Mcilvanney, William

6.

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

South, Bishop Robert

7.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

8.

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

Antrim, Minna

9.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

11.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Canetti, Elias

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

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

Haig, Alexander

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

25.

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

Simon, Paul

26.

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

Szilard, Leo

27.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

28.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

31.

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.

32.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

36.

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

37.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

38.

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

39.

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

Greene, Graham

40.

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

41.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Proust, Marcel

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.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Steiner, George

48.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.