Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Thirkell, Angela

2.

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

3.

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

Talmud, The

4.

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

Proverb, Russian

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Canetti, Elias

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

11.

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

12.

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

Williams, Tennessee

13.

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

14.

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

Mcilvanney, William

15.

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

16.

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

Armstrong, Robert

17.

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

Feather, William

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.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

23.

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.

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

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

Steiner, George

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Kant, Immanuel

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Zohar

35.

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.

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Homer

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

40.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

41.

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

Szilard, Leo

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

South, Bishop Robert

46.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

47.

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

48.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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.

50.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb