Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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''

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Mencken, H. L.

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

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.

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

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

Williams, Tennessee

7.

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

Proust, Marcel

8.

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

9.

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Homer

11.

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

Zohar

12.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

Antrim, Minna

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Thirkell, Angela

20.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Canetti, Elias

22.

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

23.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

24.

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

Crowley, Aleister

25.

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

Mcilvanney, William

26.

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

27.

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

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

Proverb, Russian

32.

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

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

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

Simon, Paul

38.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Talmud, The

40.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

41.

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''

42.

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

Merlin

43.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Watt, James

48.

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

49.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

50.

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

Twain, Mark