Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

6.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

7.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

8.

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

9.

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

10.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

Crowley, Aleister

14.

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

Talmud, The

15.

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

Greene, Graham

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.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

21.

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

Proust, Marcel

22.

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

Speakes, Larry

23.

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''

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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.

26.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

27.

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

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Simon, Paul

32.

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

Armstrong, Robert

33.

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.

34.

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

Mcilvanney, William

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

Steiner, George

37.

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

Kant, Immanuel

38.

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

Proust, Marcel

39.

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

Williams, Tennessee

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

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

Haig, Alexander

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

47.

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

48.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

49.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

50.

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

Proverb, Russian

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