Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Twain, Mark

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Speakes, Larry

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

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

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

Aristotle

10.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

12.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Proust, Marcel

16.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

Armstrong, Robert

18.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Haig, Alexander

22.

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.

23.

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

South, Bishop Robert

24.

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

Steiner, George

25.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

32.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

33.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

34.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

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

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

38.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

39.

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

Feather, William

40.

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

Mcilvanney, William

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Russian

43.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Homer

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

Phaedrus

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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges