Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

3.

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

Armstrong, Robert

4.

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

5.

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

Mcilvanney, William

6.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

7.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

8.

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

Speakes, Larry

9.

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

Kant, Immanuel

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

15.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Merlin

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

23.

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

Greene, Graham

24.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

Watt, James

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

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

30.

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

Steiner, George

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Frost, Robert

38.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

40.

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.

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

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

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

49.

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

Greene, Graham

50.

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