Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Feather, William

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

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Speakes, Larry

16.

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.

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Simon, Paul

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

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

Mcilvanney, William

27.

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

Proverb, Russian

28.

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

Frost, Robert

29.

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

Canetti, Elias

30.

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

Zohar

31.

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

Haig, Alexander

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

34.

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

Thirkell, Angela

35.

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

36.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Kant, Immanuel

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Merlin

44.

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

Greene, Graham

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

47.

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

Steiner, George

48.

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

49.

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

South, Bishop Robert

50.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall