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

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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

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

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''

5.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

6.

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

7.

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

Proust, Marcel

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

10.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

11.

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

Homer

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Haig, Alexander

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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.

24.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

25.

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

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Greene, Graham

28.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Proust, Marcel

34.

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

Speakes, Larry

35.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

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

South, Bishop Robert

37.

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

Phaedrus

38.

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

Frost, Robert

39.

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

40.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

42.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

43.

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

44.

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

Szilard, Leo

45.

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

Antrim, Minna

46.

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

Proverb, Russian

47.

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