Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

- Evans

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Feather, William

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

South, Bishop Robert

4.

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

5.

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

Proust, Marcel

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

9.

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

10.

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

Phaedrus

11.

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

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

14.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

22.

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

Thirkell, Angela

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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

Haig, Alexander

25.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Steiner, George

27.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

34.

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

Crowley, Aleister

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

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.

37.

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

Kant, Immanuel

38.

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

39.

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

Greene, Graham

40.

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

41.

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

Armstrong, Robert

42.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

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

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

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

Watt, James

49.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

50.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.