Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

Kant, Immanuel

3.

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

4.

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

South, Bishop Robert

5.

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

Merlin

6.

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

Aristotle

7.

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

8.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

9.

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

10.

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

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

Armstrong, Robert

12.

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

Simon, Paul

13.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Phaedrus

18.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

19.

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

Zohar

20.

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

Feather, William

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Crowley, Aleister

23.

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

Mcilvanney, William

24.

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

Haig, Alexander

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Antrim, Minna

36.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

37.

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

Thirkell, Angela

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

42.

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

Williams, Tennessee

43.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

46.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

47.

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''

48.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

49.

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.

50.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre