Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Speakes, Larry

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

3.

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

Greene, Graham

4.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

5.

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

6.

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

Simon, Paul

7.

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

Feather, William

8.

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

Talmud, The

9.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

10.

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

Merlin

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Russian

14.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

16.

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

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

19.

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

Zohar

20.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

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.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Thirkell, Angela

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Mcilvanney, William

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

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

34.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

Watt, James

36.

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

Frost, Robert

37.

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

Antrim, Minna

38.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

39.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

Proust, Marcel

44.

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

45.

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''

46.

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.

47.

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

Kant, Immanuel

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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