Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- France, Anatole

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.

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

Epictetus

3.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

4.

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

Proust, Marcel

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

Watt, James

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

12.

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

Szilard, Leo

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

18.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

19.

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

South, Bishop Robert

20.

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.

21.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

22.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

23.

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

Greene, Graham

24.

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

Merlin

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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.

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

29.

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''

30.

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.

31.

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

Simon, Paul

32.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

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

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

40.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Mcilvanney, William

44.

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

45.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

49.

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

Greene, Graham

50.

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