Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

7.

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.

8.

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.

9.

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''

10.

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

11.

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

Mcilvanney, William

12.

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

Watt, James

13.

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

14.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

15.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

16.

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

17.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Merlin

20.

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

Zohar

21.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

25.

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

Simon, Paul

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

28.

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

Phaedrus

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

33.

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

34.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

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

Proverb, Russian

36.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Greene, Graham

38.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

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.

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

Antrim, Minna

45.

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

Haig, Alexander

46.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

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.