Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

- Soderbergh, Steven

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Armstrong, Robert

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

4.

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

5.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

6.

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

7.

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

Szilard, Leo

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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.

10.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

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

Steiner, George

14.

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

Kant, Immanuel

15.

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

16.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

18.

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''

19.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

20.

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

Greene, Graham

21.

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

Homer

22.

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.

23.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

29.

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.

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Haig, Alexander

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

South, Bishop Robert

38.

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

Thirkell, Angela

39.

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

40.

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

Antrim, Minna

41.

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

42.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

43.

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

44.

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

Watt, James

45.

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

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

49.

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