Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Byron, Lord

4.

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

5.

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

Armstrong, Robert

6.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

7.

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

8.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

13.

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

14.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Homer

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

19.

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

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Szilard, Leo

22.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Zohar

27.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

28.

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

Haig, Alexander

29.

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

Talmud, The

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

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

Mcilvanney, William

37.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

Proverb, Russian

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Proust, Marcel

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

44.

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

Feather, William

45.

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

Kant, Immanuel

46.

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

47.

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

Watt, James

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Crowley, Aleister