Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

Simon, Paul

3.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

4.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

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

6.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

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

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

11.

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

Phaedrus

12.

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

13.

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

South, Bishop Robert

14.

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

Steiner, George

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Mcilvanney, William

24.

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

25.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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.

35.

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.

36.

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

Proverb, Russian

37.

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

Zohar

38.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

39.

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

Frost, Robert

40.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

41.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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.

43.

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

Thirkell, Angela

44.

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

45.

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

Watt, James

46.

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

Greene, Graham

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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