Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Mcilvanney, William

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

Feather, William

15.

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

Williams, Tennessee

16.

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

Phaedrus

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

19.

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.

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Antrim, Minna

22.

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

Crowley, Aleister

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Talmud, The

26.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

34.

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''

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

38.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

39.

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

Kant, Immanuel

40.

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

41.

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

Thirkell, Angela

42.

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

Proust, Marcel

43.

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

44.

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

Frost, Robert

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.

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

47.

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

Watt, James

48.

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

49.

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

Merlin

50.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter