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 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

2.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

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''

5.

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

6.

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

Zohar

7.

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

Mencken, H. L.

8.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.

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

10.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

12.

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

Phaedrus

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

17.

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

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Haig, Alexander

25.

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

26.

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.

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Speakes, Larry

29.

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

Thirkell, Angela

30.

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

Armstrong, Robert

31.

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

32.

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

Kant, Immanuel

33.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

South, Bishop Robert

35.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Proverb, Russian

38.

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

Steiner, George

39.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Feather, William

42.

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

43.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

44.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

45.

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

46.

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