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.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

2.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

6.

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

Talmud, The

7.

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

Williams, Tennessee

8.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

9.

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.

10.

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

Armstrong, Robert

11.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

12.

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

Haig, Alexander

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

25.

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

Simon, Paul

26.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Proverb, Russian

32.

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

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Thirkell, Angela

37.

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

Speakes, Larry

38.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

39.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

40.

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''

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

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

43.

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

Greene, Graham

44.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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.

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

Greene, Graham

49.

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

Frost, Robert

50.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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