Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Haig, Alexander

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Steiner, George

2.

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

Haig, Alexander

3.

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

Watt, James

4.

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

Antrim, Minna

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Voltaire

9.

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

Mcilvanney, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Armstrong, Robert

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

16.

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

Frost, Robert

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

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

Thirkell, Angela

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Zohar

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

25.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

Williams, Tennessee

29.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

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

Simon, Paul

32.

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

Speakes, Larry

33.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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.

37.

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.

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Homer

44.

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