Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Merlin

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Talmud, The

2.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

3.

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

Proust, Marcel

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

Speakes, Larry

6.

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

7.

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

Epictetus

8.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

9.

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

10.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

12.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Watt, James

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

18.

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

19.

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''

20.

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

Frost, Robert

21.

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

Antrim, Minna

22.

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

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

Greene, Graham

25.

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.

26.

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.

27.

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

Homer

28.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Kant, Immanuel

33.

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

Greene, Graham

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

36.

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

Armstrong, Robert

37.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

39.

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

40.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

42.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Russian

45.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

46.

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

South, Bishop Robert

47.

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