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.

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

Mcilvanney, William

2.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

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

Simon, Paul

4.

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

5.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

6.

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

7.

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

Zohar

8.

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.

9.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Phaedrus

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Crowley, Aleister

17.

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

Kant, Immanuel

18.

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

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

Proust, Marcel

20.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

21.

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

22.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Proverb, Russian

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

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

30.

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''

31.

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

Greene, Graham

32.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

35.

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

Armstrong, Robert

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Steiner, George

38.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

39.

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

40.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

41.

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

42.

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

43.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

44.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

47.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

48.

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

Feather, William

49.

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

Speakes, Larry

50.

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.