Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Antrim, Minna

2.

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

Mencken, H. L.

3.

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

Merlin

4.

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.

5.

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

Mcilvanney, William

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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.

11.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

13.

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

Williams, Tennessee

14.

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

Watt, James

15.

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

16.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

17.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

18.

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

Steiner, George

19.

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

20.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

21.

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

Kant, Immanuel

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

34.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

38.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Speakes, Larry

40.

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

Talmud, The

41.

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

Proverb, Russian

42.

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

Szilard, Leo

43.

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

Feather, William

44.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

45.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

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

Greene, Graham

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

49.

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

Twain, Mark

50.

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

Haig, Alexander