Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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.

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.

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

3.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

4.

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

Armstrong, Robert

5.

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

6.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

8.

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

Phaedrus

9.

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

Zohar

10.

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

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

13.

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

Merlin

14.

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

Greene, Graham

15.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

22.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

23.

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

Steiner, George

24.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

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

Frost, Robert

30.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

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

Haig, Alexander

35.

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

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Watt, James

42.

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

Proust, Marcel

43.

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

Kant, Immanuel

44.

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

Proust, Marcel

45.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

46.

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

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

49.

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