Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

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

3.

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

Thirkell, Angela

4.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

5.

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

South, Bishop Robert

6.

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.

7.

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

Talmud, The

8.

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

Phaedrus

9.

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

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

Armstrong, Robert

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Greene, Graham

13.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Proust, Marcel

20.

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

Szilard, Leo

21.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Canetti, Elias

24.

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

Proverb, Russian

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

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

Crowley, Aleister

30.

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

Feather, William

31.

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

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

34.

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

35.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

37.

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

Williams, Tennessee

38.

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