Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

Merlin

3.

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

Proverb, Russian

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

10.

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

Armstrong, Robert

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Greene, Graham

14.

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

Steiner, George

15.

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

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

18.

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

Haig, Alexander

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

21.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

22.

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

Thirkell, Angela

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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''

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

30.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

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

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

34.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

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

Speakes, Larry

36.

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

37.

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

Phaedrus

38.

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

Antrim, Minna

39.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

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

Canetti, Elias

41.

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

Szilard, Leo

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Kant, Immanuel

45.

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

46.

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

Feather, William