Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Merlin

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

12.

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

13.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

17.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

Canetti, Elias

21.

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

Homer

22.

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

Steiner, George

23.

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

Thirkell, Angela

24.

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

South, Bishop Robert

25.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Russian

30.

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

Simon, Paul

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

Williams, Tennessee

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

37.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Crowley, Aleister

39.

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

40.

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

Phaedrus

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

43.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

44.

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''

45.

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.

46.

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

Haig, Alexander

47.

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

Proust, Marcel

48.

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

Greene, Graham

49.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

50.

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