Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

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.

6.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

7.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

8.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

9.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Canetti, Elias

13.

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''

14.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

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

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

25.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

28.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

31.

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

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

34.

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

Speakes, Larry

35.

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

Feather, William

36.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

37.

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

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

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

Talmud, The

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Thirkell, Angela

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

Mcilvanney, William

47.

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

48.

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

Watt, James

49.

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

50.

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

Frost, Robert