Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Haig, Alexander

2.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

3.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

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

Greene, Graham

5.

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

Watt, James

6.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

7.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

9.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

11.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

13.

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

Proverb, Russian

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.

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

16.

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

Armstrong, Robert

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

South, Bishop Robert

20.

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

Steiner, George

21.

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

Antrim, Minna

22.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

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

28.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Zohar

32.

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

Frost, Robert

33.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Crisp, Quentin

34.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Mcilvanney, William

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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.

47.

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

48.

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

Williams, Tennessee

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

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