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.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

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

Watt, James

3.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

4.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

8.

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

9.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

10.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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''

12.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Haig, Alexander

14.

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

Canetti, Elias

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Feather, William

18.

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.

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

21.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Frost, Robert

25.

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

Armstrong, Robert

26.

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

Williams, Tennessee

27.

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

Mcilvanney, William

28.

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

Greene, Graham

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

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

34.

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

South, Bishop Robert

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

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

40.

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

Proust, Marcel

41.

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