Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Canetti, Elias

2.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

Proust, Marcel

4.

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

5.

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

Mencken, H. L.

6.

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

Homer

7.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

8.

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

Talmud, The

9.

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.

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Williams, Tennessee

12.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Frost, Robert

24.

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

Proverb, Russian

25.

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

Zohar

26.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

South, Bishop Robert

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

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

30.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

31.

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

Greene, Graham

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

Thirkell, Angela

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

40.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Watt, James

42.

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

Mcilvanney, William

43.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

44.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

45.

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.

46.

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

Proust, Marcel

47.

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

48.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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''