Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

2.

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

Phaedrus

3.

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

4.

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

Steiner, George

5.

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

Voltaire

6.

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

Williams, Tennessee

7.

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Haig, Alexander

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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''

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

Watt, James

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Speakes, Larry

23.

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

Proverb, Russian

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

30.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

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

Armstrong, Robert

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

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

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Thirkell, Angela

41.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

42.

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

Crowley, Aleister

43.

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

Szilard, Leo

44.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

45.

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

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

49.

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

50.

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.