Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Voltaire

2.

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

Proust, Marcel

3.

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

Armstrong, Robert

4.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

5.

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

Homer

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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

Greene, Graham

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

12.

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

Watt, James

13.

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

Speakes, Larry

14.

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

15.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

16.

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

Antrim, Minna

17.

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

Merlin

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

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

21.

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

Phaedrus

22.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

23.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Simon, Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Kant, Immanuel

35.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

36.

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

Steiner, George

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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