Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

2.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

3.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

4.

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

5.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

6.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

7.

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

Canetti, Elias

8.

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

Steiner, George

9.

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

Thirkell, Angela

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Szilard, Leo

17.

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

Antrim, Minna

18.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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.

20.

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

Homer

21.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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

Crowley, Aleister

23.

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

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

Feather, William

27.

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

Speakes, Larry

28.

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

29.

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

Proust, Marcel

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

32.

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

Merlin

33.

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

Kant, Immanuel

34.

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''

35.

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

36.

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

Haig, Alexander

37.

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

Armstrong, Robert

38.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

39.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.