Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Simon, Paul

2.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

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

Frost, Robert

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Phaedrus

7.

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

Greene, Graham

8.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

Greene, Graham

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Armstrong, Robert

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.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

15.

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

Zohar

16.

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

Crowley, Aleister

17.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

20.

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

Homer

21.

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

Proverb, Russian

22.

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

Haig, Alexander

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Canetti, Elias

25.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

26.

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

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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''

31.

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

32.

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

Watt, James

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

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

Speakes, Larry

35.

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

Thirkell, Angela

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

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.

41.

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

Steiner, George

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

South, Bishop Robert

44.

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

Feather, William

45.

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

Proust, Marcel

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.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Twain, Mark