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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

3.

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

Haig, Alexander

4.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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.

6.

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

Homer

7.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Talmud, The

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

16.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

17.

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

Frost, Robert

18.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Mcilvanney, William

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Greene, Graham

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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.

31.

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

Merlin

32.

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

Proverb, Russian

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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.

36.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

37.

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

38.

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

Szilard, Leo

39.

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.

40.

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

Canetti, Elias

41.

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

Proust, Marcel

42.

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

Crowley, Aleister

43.

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

Greene, Graham

44.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

48.

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

Simon, Paul

49.

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

Speakes, Larry

50.

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