Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

3.

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

Greene, Graham

4.

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

5.

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

Williams, Tennessee

6.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

7.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

8.

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

Proverb, Russian

9.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

12.

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

Steiner, George

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

16.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

17.

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''

18.

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

Armstrong, Robert

19.

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

Proust, Marcel

20.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

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.

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.

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.

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

29.

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

Homer

30.

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

31.

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

Canetti, Elias

32.

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

Zohar

33.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Crisp, Quentin

35.

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

Greene, Graham

36.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

38.

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

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Thirkell, Angela

43.

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.

44.

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

Talmud, The

45.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.