Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

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

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

7.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

8.

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

9.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Homer

14.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

15.

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

Armstrong, Robert

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Crowley, Aleister

19.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

21.

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

Feather, William

22.

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

Steiner, George

23.

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

24.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

28.

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

Proverb, Russian

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

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

Watt, James

32.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

33.

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

Williams, Tennessee

34.

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

South, Bishop Robert

35.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Proust, Marcel

40.

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

41.

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

Speakes, Larry

42.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

43.

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

Mcilvanney, William

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Talmud, The

48.

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