Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

3.

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

Mcilvanney, William

4.

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

Kant, Immanuel

5.

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

Zohar

6.

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

Homer

7.

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

Williams, Tennessee

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

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

Merlin

10.

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

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

South, Bishop Robert

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Greene, Graham

16.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

17.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

18.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

19.

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

Crowley, Aleister

20.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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.

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

Talmud, The

23.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Proverb, Russian

25.

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

26.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

27.

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

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

30.

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

Proust, Marcel

31.

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.

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

36.

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

37.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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

Canetti, Elias

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

43.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

44.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Feather, William

48.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

49.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

50.

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.