Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Watt, James

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

4.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

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.

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

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

Talmud, The

10.

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

11.

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

Mcilvanney, William

12.

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

Speakes, Larry

13.

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

Greene, Graham

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

17.

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

18.

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

Greene, Graham

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Zohar

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Crowley, Aleister

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Proverb, Russian

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Antrim, Minna

35.

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

Simon, Paul

36.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Haig, Alexander

43.

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