Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, Russian

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.

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

14.

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

Williams, Tennessee

15.

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

Greene, Graham

16.

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

Watt, James

17.

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

Crowley, Aleister

18.

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

Szilard, Leo

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Proust, Marcel

24.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

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

South, Bishop Robert

28.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Merlin

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Canetti, Elias

33.

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

Feather, William

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

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

Proust, Marcel

38.

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

39.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Aristotle

46.

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

Thirkell, Angela

47.

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

Armstrong, Robert

48.

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

Simon, Paul

49.

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

Speakes, Larry

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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