Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Greene, Graham

2.

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

Proust, Marcel

3.

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

Byron, Lord

4.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

5.

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

6.

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

Watt, James

7.

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

Speakes, Larry

8.

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

Armstrong, Robert

9.

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

10.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Russian

13.

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

Thirkell, Angela

14.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

16.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

17.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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.

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Zohar

25.

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

Phaedrus

26.

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

Szilard, Leo

27.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

28.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Feather, William

31.

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

Kant, Immanuel

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Proust, Marcel

39.

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

Homer

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

46.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

47.

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

Steiner, George

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di