Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Watt, James

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Watt, James

2.

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

Proust, Marcel

3.

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

Williams, Tennessee

4.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

5.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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

Speakes, Larry

10.

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

Mcilvanney, William

11.

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.

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

14.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

15.

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

Antrim, Minna

16.

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.

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

19.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Phaedrus

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

26.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

27.

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

28.

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

Greene, Graham

29.

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.

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

33.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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.

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.

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

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

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

Zohar

41.

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

Homer

42.

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

Frost, Robert

43.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

44.

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

Thirkell, Angela

45.

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''

46.

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

47.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

48.

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

Haig, Alexander

49.

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

50.

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