Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

2.

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

Feather, William

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

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

South, Bishop Robert

5.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

6.

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''

7.

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

8.

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

Talmud, The

9.

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

Greene, Graham

10.

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

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

Steiner, George

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Haig, Alexander

15.

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

Mcilvanney, William

16.

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

17.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

18.

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

Merlin

19.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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

Crowley, Aleister

24.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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.

30.

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

Phaedrus

31.

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

32.

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

Thirkell, Angela

33.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

37.

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

Byron, Lord

38.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

39.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

40.

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

41.

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

Szilard, Leo

42.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

49.

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

Voltaire

50.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian