Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

3.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

7.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

8.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

9.

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

South, Bishop Robert

10.

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

Mcilvanney, William

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

15.

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

Feather, William

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

Proust, Marcel

18.

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

Canetti, Elias

19.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

20.

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.

21.

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

Armstrong, Robert

22.

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

Talmud, The

23.

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

Antrim, Minna

24.

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.

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.

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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Szilard, Leo

29.

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

30.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

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

33.

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

Steiner, George

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Proverb, Russian

36.

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

37.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

38.

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

Greene, Graham

39.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

40.

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

Phaedrus