Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

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

5.

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

Greene, Graham

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

8.

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

Frost, Robert

9.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

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

11.

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

Szilard, Leo

12.

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

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

15.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

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

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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.

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Proust, Marcel

27.

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

Antrim, Minna

28.

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

Simon, Paul

29.

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

30.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

Thirkell, Angela

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

37.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

South, Bishop Robert

42.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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

Kant, Immanuel

45.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

46.

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

Armstrong, Robert

47.

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.

48.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

49.

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.

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De