Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Merlin

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Aristotle

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

Canetti, Elias

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Szilard, Leo

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.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Proust, Marcel

14.

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

15.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

20.

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

Armstrong, Robert

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

23.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

24.

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

Proverb, Russian

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Phaedrus

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Merlin

29.

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''

30.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

31.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

32.

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

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Zohar

35.

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.

36.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

37.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Feather, William

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Mcilvanney, William

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

47.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb