Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

- Evans

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Epictetus

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

10.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Proust, Marcel

13.

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

Zohar

14.

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

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Speakes, Larry

16.

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

Thirkell, Angela

17.

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''

18.

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

19.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Crowley, Aleister

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

23.

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

Antrim, Minna

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

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.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

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

30.

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

Feather, William

31.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

32.

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

Proverb, Russian

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

37.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

38.

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

Szilard, Leo

39.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

42.

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

Watt, James

43.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

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

45.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

46.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Homer

48.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

49.

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.

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

Twain, Mark