Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Frost, Robert

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

6.

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

Aristotle

7.

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

South, Bishop Robert

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Speakes, Larry

13.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

Canetti, Elias

16.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

17.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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.

19.

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

Phaedrus

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

23.

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

Thirkell, Angela

24.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

25.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

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

Crowley, Aleister

27.

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

Antrim, Minna

28.

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''

29.

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.

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Armstrong, Robert

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

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

37.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

38.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Szilard, Leo

44.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

45.

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

Greene, Graham

46.

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

Williams, Tennessee

47.

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

Steiner, George

48.

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

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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