Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Speakes, Larry

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

4.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

5.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

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

Canetti, Elias

9.

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

Steiner, George

10.

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

11.

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

Mcilvanney, William

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Haig, Alexander

14.

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

Proust, Marcel

15.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

17.

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

Watt, James

18.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

19.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

24.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

25.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

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

Thirkell, Angela

30.

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

31.

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

Greene, Graham

32.

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

Feather, William

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

35.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

36.

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

Antrim, Minna

37.

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

Speakes, Larry

38.

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

Aristotle

39.

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

40.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

41.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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.

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

47.

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.

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

50.

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

Merlin