Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Watt, James

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

5.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Merlin

7.

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.

8.

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

Speakes, Larry

9.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

Proverb, Russian

11.

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

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Watt, James

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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.

18.

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

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

21.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

22.

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

Feather, William

23.

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

Mcilvanney, William

24.

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

Crowley, Aleister

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

28.

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

Szilard, Leo

29.

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

Proust, Marcel

30.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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.

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

34.

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

South, Bishop Robert

35.

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