Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Thirkell, Angela

4.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

7.

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.

8.

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

Antrim, Minna

9.

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.

10.

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

Williams, Tennessee

11.

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

12.

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

Armstrong, Robert

13.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Phaedrus

16.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

17.

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

Kant, Immanuel

18.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

19.

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''

20.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

24.

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

25.

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

Zohar

26.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Proust, Marcel

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Homer

34.

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

Talmud, The

35.

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

36.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

37.

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

Proust, Marcel

38.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

43.

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

44.

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

Feather, William

45.

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

Haig, Alexander

46.

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.

47.

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

Mcilvanney, William

48.

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.

49.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

50.

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

Szilard, Leo