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.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

2.

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

Thirkell, Angela

3.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

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

Voltaire

5.

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

6.

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

Proust, Marcel

7.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

8.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

9.

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

10.

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

Canetti, Elias

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Frost, Robert

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.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Antrim, Minna

20.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

21.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

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

23.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

25.

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

26.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

27.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Armstrong, Robert

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Merlin

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Steiner, George

43.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

South, Bishop Robert

45.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

46.

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

Phaedrus

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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

Simon, Paul

49.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

50.

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