Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Greene, Graham

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Speakes, Larry

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.

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

10.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

11.

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

12.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

14.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

15.

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

Thirkell, Angela

16.

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

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Watt, James

24.

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

Proverb, Russian

25.

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

26.

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

Proust, Marcel

27.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

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

30.

Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it.

31.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

37.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

38.

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

Greene, Graham

39.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

40.

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

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Simon, Paul

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

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

Kant, Immanuel

48.

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

49.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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