Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Liars need to have good memories.

- Sidney, Algernon

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Phaedrus

2.

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''

3.

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

Proverb, Russian

4.

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

Merlin

5.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

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.

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

9.

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

Canetti, Elias

10.

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

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Zohar

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

South, Bishop Robert

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

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

Greene, Graham

22.

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.

23.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

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.

27.

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

Watt, James

28.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

29.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

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

Antrim, Minna

36.

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

Greene, Graham

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

Thirkell, Angela

42.

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

Feather, William

43.

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.

44.

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.

45.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

49.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

50.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.