Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Haig, Alexander

3.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

4.

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

Proust, Marcel

5.

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

Armstrong, Robert

6.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

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

Zohar

9.

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

10.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Watt, James

14.

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

Szilard, Leo

15.

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

Mcilvanney, William

16.

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

Phaedrus

17.

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.

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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.

21.

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

Canetti, Elias

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Speakes, Larry

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Feather, William

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

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

Simon, Paul

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

33.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

34.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

35.

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

Proverb, Russian

36.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

37.

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

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

40.

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

Greene, Graham

41.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

South, Bishop Robert

46.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Voltaire

50.

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.