Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

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

3.

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

Talmud, The

4.

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

5.

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

Szilard, Leo

6.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

7.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

8.

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

9.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

11.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

13.

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

Proverb, Russian

14.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

15.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

16.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

17.

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

Steiner, George

18.

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

Merlin

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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.

21.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

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

Thirkell, Angela

28.

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

Homer

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Phaedrus

32.

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

Speakes, Larry

33.

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

Proust, Marcel

34.

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

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Frost, Robert

41.

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''

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

44.

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

45.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

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

47.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

48.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

49.

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

50.

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.