Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Antrim, Minna

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Feather, William

14.

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

Proverb, Russian

15.

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

Thirkell, Angela

16.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

Proust, Marcel

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

25.

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

26.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

27.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

28.

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

Greene, Graham

29.

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

Canetti, Elias

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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.

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

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Crowley, Aleister

37.

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

Watt, James

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.

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

Talmud, The

41.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

South, Bishop Robert

44.

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

45.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

46.

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.

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Merlin

49.

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

Frost, Robert

50.

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.