Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Great talker, great liar.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

2.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

3.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Speakes, Larry

8.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.

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

10.

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

Zohar

11.

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

Greene, Graham

12.

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

13.

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

14.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

16.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

17.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

18.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

20.

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

Haig, Alexander

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

23.

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

Szilard, Leo

24.

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

Homer

25.

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

Watt, James

26.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

27.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

30.

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

31.

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

Simon, Paul

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Phaedrus

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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.

41.

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

Frost, Robert

42.

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''

43.

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.

44.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.