Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

Proust, Marcel

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Byron, Lord

8.

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

9.

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

Merlin

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Homer

14.

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

Canetti, Elias

15.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

17.

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

Proverb, Russian

18.

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

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

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

Haig, Alexander

25.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

26.

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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Greene, Graham

29.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

33.

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

Steiner, George

34.

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

35.

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

Proust, Marcel

36.

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

Williams, Tennessee

37.

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

38.

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

39.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

41.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

42.

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.