Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

2.

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''

3.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

4.

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

Byron, Lord

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Thirkell, Angela

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

9.

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

Antrim, Minna

10.

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

Mcilvanney, William

11.

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

12.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

13.

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

14.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

16.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

19.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

20.

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

21.

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

Zohar

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

24.

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

Watt, James

25.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

26.

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

South, Bishop Robert

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Crowley, Aleister

31.

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

Homer

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

40.

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

Merlin

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Steiner, George

43.

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

44.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

Szilard, Leo

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Proust, Marcel

49.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

50.

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.