Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Proust, Marcel

2.

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

Byron, Lord

3.

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

Voltaire

4.

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.

5.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

6.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

7.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

8.

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.

9.

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

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Frost, Robert

15.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

16.

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

Armstrong, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Speakes, Larry

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

Szilard, Leo

21.

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

22.

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

Thirkell, Angela

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

25.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

28.

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

Greene, Graham

29.

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

South, Bishop Robert

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

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

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Simon, Paul

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Watt, James

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Kant, Immanuel

39.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Homer

41.

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

42.

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

Crowley, Aleister

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Phaedrus

47.

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

Mcilvanney, William

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

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