Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

- Soderbergh, Steven

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

3.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

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

Kant, Immanuel

6.

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

Crowley, Aleister

7.

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

8.

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

Byron, Lord

9.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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.

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

Merlin

14.

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

Canetti, Elias

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Armstrong, Robert

18.

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

Zohar

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Thirkell, Angela

23.

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''

24.

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

Homer

25.

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

Greene, Graham

26.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

32.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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

Proust, Marcel

34.

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

Mcilvanney, William

35.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Feather, William

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

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

Williams, Tennessee

41.

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

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.