Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

Watt, James

4.

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

Aristotle

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

Haig, Alexander

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

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

Homer

11.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

12.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

Canetti, Elias

14.

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

Talmud, The

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

Phaedrus

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

23.

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

24.

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

Merlin

25.

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.

26.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

27.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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.

33.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

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

Simon, Paul

35.

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

36.

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

Proust, Marcel

37.

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

38.

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

Greene, Graham

39.

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

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

43.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

44.

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

45.

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

Zohar

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

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

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

50.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall