Best Quotes about Lies and lying
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Steiner, George
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
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
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Bowen, Elizabeth
Don't lie if you don't have to.
Szilard, Leo
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Dunne, Finley Peter
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.
I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
Homer
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
Frost, Robert
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.
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
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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean
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
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
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
Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
France, Anatole
When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Haig, Alexander
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Greene, Graham
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Twain, Mark
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
South, Bishop Robert
A liar is full of oaths.
Corneille, Pierre
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mencken, H. L.
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
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Talmud, The
The lie is a condition of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Feather, William
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Speakes, Larry
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
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Mcilvanney, William
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Byron, Lord
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Great talker, great liar.
Proverb, French
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
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Merlin
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
Twain, Mark
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Antrim, Minna
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
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