Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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.

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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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

2.

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

3.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

4.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

5.

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.

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

Greene, Graham

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

12.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

Speakes, Larry

15.

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

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

22.

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

Steiner, George

23.

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

24.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

25.

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

Watt, James

26.

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

Haig, Alexander

27.

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

28.

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

Phaedrus

29.

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

Homer

30.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Thirkell, Angela

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Proust, Marcel

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

42.

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

Canetti, Elias

43.

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

44.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

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

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Mcilvanney, William

48.

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

49.

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.