Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

6.

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

7.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

8.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

9.

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

Simon, Paul

10.

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.

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

15.

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

Zohar

16.

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

Greene, Graham

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.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Crowley, Aleister

22.

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

23.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

24.

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

25.

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''

26.

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

Szilard, Leo

27.

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

Thirkell, Angela

28.

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

Steiner, George

29.

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.

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Armstrong, Robert

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Kant, Immanuel

34.

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

Merlin

35.

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.

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

South, Bishop Robert

39.

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

Homer

40.

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

41.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

42.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

43.

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

Frost, Robert

44.

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