Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Armstrong, Robert

2.

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

Zohar

3.

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

Proverb, Russian

4.

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

5.

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

Williams, Tennessee

6.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

9.

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Merlin

11.

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

Kant, Immanuel

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

Greene, Graham

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

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

23.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

24.

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

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

29.

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

South, Bishop Robert

30.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

38.

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

Homer

39.

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