Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Armstrong, Robert

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Haig, Alexander

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Twain, Mark

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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.

8.

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

Antrim, Minna

9.

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

Speakes, Larry

10.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

13.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

14.

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

Simon, Paul

15.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

16.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

17.

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

18.

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

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

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

Proust, Marcel

22.

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

Steiner, George

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

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

26.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

Kant, Immanuel

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Thirkell, Angela

34.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

35.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

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

Proverb, Russian

38.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

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

41.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Frost, Robert

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

47.

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

Mcilvanney, William

48.

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

South, Bishop Robert

49.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

50.

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