Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

3.

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

Mencken, H. L.

4.

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

Speakes, Larry

5.

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

6.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Merlin

10.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Canetti, Elias

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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.

15.

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

Zohar

16.

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

Proverb, Russian

17.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

18.

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

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Szilard, Leo

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

30.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

33.

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

Mcilvanney, William

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Armstrong, Robert

36.

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

Simon, Paul

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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.

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Steiner, George

41.

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

Antrim, Minna

42.

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

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Proust, Marcel