Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Dunne, Finley Peter

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Thirkell, Angela

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

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

Greene, Graham

5.

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

6.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Phaedrus

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

16.

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''

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

21.

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

Proust, Marcel

22.

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

23.

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

Crowley, Aleister

24.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

25.

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

26.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

27.

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

Kant, Immanuel

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

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

33.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

34.

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

Antrim, Minna

35.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

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

Watt, James

40.

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

Proverb, Russian

41.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

42.

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

Talmud, The

43.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Szilard, Leo

49.

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

Byron, Lord

50.

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