Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Liars need to have good memories.

- Sidney, Algernon

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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.

2.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

3.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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.

6.

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

Proverb, Russian

7.

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

8.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

9.

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

10.

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

Talmud, The

11.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

13.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

14.

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

Armstrong, Robert

15.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Speakes, Larry

19.

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

20.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Phaedrus

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Watt, James

27.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

29.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

30.

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

Proust, Marcel

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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