Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

Greene, Graham

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

5.

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

6.

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''

7.

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

Epictetus

8.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

9.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

Zohar

11.

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

12.

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

Canetti, Elias

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Armstrong, Robert

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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.

19.

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

Antrim, Minna

20.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Homer

22.

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

23.

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

Kant, Immanuel

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Proverb, Russian

27.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Szilard, Leo

30.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

31.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

32.

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

33.

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

Proust, Marcel

34.

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

Feather, William

35.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

36.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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

Williams, Tennessee

38.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Steiner, George

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De