Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

2.

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

3.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

4.

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

5.

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

Williams, Tennessee

6.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

7.

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

8.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

9.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

10.

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

Speakes, Larry

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Homer

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

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.

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

22.

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

Thirkell, Angela

23.

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

Greene, Graham

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.

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

Proverb, Russian

26.

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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

30.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

Merlin

33.

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

Armstrong, Robert

34.

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

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.

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

37.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

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

Watt, James

44.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

45.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

46.

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

Mcilvanney, William

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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

Twain, Mark