Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Steiner, George

4.

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

5.

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

Greene, Graham

6.

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

Canetti, Elias

7.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

8.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

9.

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

12.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

13.

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

Merlin

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

20.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

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

Armstrong, Robert

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Williams, Tennessee

26.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Zohar

28.

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

29.

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

Watt, James

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Proust, Marcel

33.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Talmud, The

36.

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

37.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

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

Antrim, Minna

40.

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

Crowley, Aleister

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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.

45.

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

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

47.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Simon, Paul