Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Simon, Paul

2.

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.

3.

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

Voltaire

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.

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

Canetti, Elias

6.

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

Armstrong, Robert

7.

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.

8.

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''

9.

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

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

12.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

13.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

14.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Steiner, George

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

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

Merlin

26.

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

Greene, Graham

27.

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

Antrim, Minna

28.

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

Speakes, Larry

29.

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

Thirkell, Angela

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

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

Feather, William

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

39.

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

40.

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

Mcilvanney, William

41.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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.

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

44.

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

Szilard, Leo

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

Zohar

47.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

48.

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

49.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

50.

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.