Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

2.

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

3.

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

4.

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

5.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

6.

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

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

10.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

15.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

16.

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

Proverb, Russian

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

20.

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

Kant, Immanuel

21.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

23.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

32.

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.

33.

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

Speakes, Larry

34.

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

35.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

36.

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.

37.

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

Steiner, George

38.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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.

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

41.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

42.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

43.

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

Zohar

44.

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

Thirkell, Angela

45.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

46.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

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.

49.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De