Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

2.

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

3.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

9.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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''

12.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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.

15.

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

Proust, Marcel

16.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

17.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

18.

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

Haig, Alexander

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Proverb, Russian

22.

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

Speakes, Larry

23.

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.

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Antrim, Minna

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

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

Steiner, George

28.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Watt, James

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

South, Bishop Robert

33.

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.

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Phaedrus

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Greene, Graham

43.

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

44.

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

Merlin

45.

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.

46.

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

Mcilvanney, William

47.

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

Thirkell, Angela

48.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

49.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean