Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

2.

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

Voltaire

3.

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

4.

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

Armstrong, Robert

5.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

6.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

Proverb, Russian

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

10.

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

Steiner, George

11.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

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

Watt, James

13.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

14.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Greene, Graham

17.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

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

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

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

Greene, Graham

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Homer

25.

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

Merlin

26.

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

27.

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

South, Bishop Robert

28.

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

Haig, Alexander

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

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

32.

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

Proust, Marcel

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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.

35.

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''

36.

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

Speakes, Larry

37.

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

Crowley, Aleister

38.

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

Mcilvanney, William

39.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

40.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

46.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

47.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Frost, Robert