Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Haig, Alexander

2.

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

Byron, Lord

3.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

4.

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.

5.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.

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

Greene, Graham

7.

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

Thirkell, Angela

8.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

9.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

10.

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''

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Feather, William

13.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

14.

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

Proverb, Russian

15.

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

Antrim, Minna

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Mcilvanney, William

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

22.

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

Homer

23.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

Simon, Paul

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

28.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

29.

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

Phaedrus

30.

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.

31.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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

South, Bishop Robert

37.

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

38.

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

Merlin

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Talmud, The

43.

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

Szilard, Leo

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Greene, Graham

49.

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.

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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