Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Frost, Robert

3.

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

Phaedrus

4.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

5.

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

6.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

7.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

8.

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

Canetti, Elias

9.

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

Crowley, Aleister

10.

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

Mcilvanney, William

11.

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

12.

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

Greene, Graham

13.

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

Byron, Lord

14.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Montague, C. E.

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

South, Bishop Robert

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

19.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

20.

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

21.

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

Williams, Tennessee

22.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

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

Merlin

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Watt, James

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Kant, Immanuel

35.

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

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

Zohar

38.

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

Speakes, Larry

39.

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

Szilard, Leo

40.

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

Proverb, Russian

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

43.

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

Steiner, George

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

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

Simon, Paul

46.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

47.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

48.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

50.

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

Haig, Alexander