Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

- Evans

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

2.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

3.

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

Mcilvanney, William

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

8.

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

Frost, Robert

9.

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

10.

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

Thirkell, Angela

11.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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

Proust, Marcel

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.

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

Greene, Graham

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

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

Merlin

33.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Proverb, Russian

36.

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

Crowley, Aleister

37.

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

Watt, James

38.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

39.

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

Greene, Graham

40.

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

41.

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

Phaedrus

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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.

44.

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

Kant, Immanuel

45.

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

Simon, Paul

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Steiner, George

49.

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

50.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter