Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Simon, Paul

4.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

5.

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

Proust, Marcel

6.

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

Thirkell, Angela

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

South, Bishop Robert

9.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

12.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

13.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Greene, Graham

20.

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

Crowley, Aleister

21.

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

Frost, Robert

22.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Greene, Graham

28.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

Szilard, Leo

33.

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

34.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

35.

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

Merlin

36.

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

Byron, Lord

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

39.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

40.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Antrim, Minna

42.

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