Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

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

Crowley, Aleister

3.

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

4.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Zohar

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Greene, Graham

9.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

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.

11.

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

Antrim, Minna

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Canetti, Elias

14.

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.

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.

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

Simon, Paul

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Szilard, Leo

21.

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.

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Homer

24.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

26.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

29.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

30.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

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

32.

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

Frost, Robert

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.

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

Haig, Alexander

35.

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

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

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

Steiner, George

40.

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

41.

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

Speakes, Larry

42.

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

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Armstrong, Robert

45.

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

Mcilvanney, William

46.

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.