Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

3.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

4.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

7.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

8.

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

9.

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

Greene, Graham

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

15.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Frost, Robert

19.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Kant, Immanuel

21.

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.

22.

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

Steiner, George

23.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

27.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

29.

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

Armstrong, Robert

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

32.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

34.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

35.

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.

36.

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

Feather, William

37.

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

Homer

38.

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

Greene, Graham

39.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

45.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

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

Williams, Tennessee

48.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

49.

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

50.

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