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.

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

2.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

3.

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

Voltaire

4.

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

Williams, Tennessee

5.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

6.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Canetti, Elias

9.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

12.

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''

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Watt, James

16.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

17.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

18.

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

Crowley, Aleister

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

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

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

26.

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

Speakes, Larry

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

29.

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

South, Bishop Robert

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Feather, William

33.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

34.

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

Mcilvanney, William

35.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Greene, Graham

40.

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

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Byron, Lord

46.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

47.

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

Kant, Immanuel

48.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.