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

1.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

2.

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

Speakes, Larry

3.

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

Homer

4.

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

Phaedrus

5.

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

6.

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

Armstrong, Robert

7.

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

Mencken, H. L.

8.

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''

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

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

Feather, William

16.

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.

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

19.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

26.

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

27.

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

Greene, Graham

28.

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

Watt, James

29.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

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

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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.

35.

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

Canetti, Elias

36.

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

37.

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

Greene, Graham

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

41.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

42.

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

Merlin

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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