Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

2.

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''

3.

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

4.

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

Williams, Tennessee

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Zohar

8.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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.

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

Speakes, Larry

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

13.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Szilard, Leo

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Watt, James

17.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

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

Antrim, Minna

20.

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

Haig, Alexander

21.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

24.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

25.

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

Canetti, Elias

26.

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

Proust, Marcel

27.

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

28.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

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

South, Bishop Robert

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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.

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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Proust, Marcel

41.

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

Proverb, Russian

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

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

Thirkell, Angela

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Phaedrus