Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

3.

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

4.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Crowley, Aleister

7.

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

Antrim, Minna

8.

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

Talmud, The

9.

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

12.

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

Proust, Marcel

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

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

Kant, Immanuel

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Russian

19.

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

20.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Frost, Robert

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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.

33.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

35.

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

Mcilvanney, William

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

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.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

46.

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

Zohar

47.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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.