Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

3.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

Armstrong, Robert

6.

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

Thirkell, Angela

7.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

13.

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

Szilard, Leo

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

16.

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

Proust, Marcel

17.

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

Crowley, Aleister

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

23.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

24.

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

Merlin

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Phaedrus

29.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

30.

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

Feather, William

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Homer

41.

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

Haig, Alexander

42.

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.

43.

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

Watt, James

44.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

45.

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

Greene, Graham

46.

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

Proverb, Russian