[ lies and lying Quotes ]



Showing search results for Quotations by subject : Lies and Lying - 78 quotations
78 quotes (Page 1 of 4 pages)


A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.
Lies and Lying
Source Unknown

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1054 votes

A liar is full of oaths.
Lies and Lying
Pierre Corneille

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 762 votes

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.
Lies and Lying
James Watt

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 660 votes

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

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 671 votes

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Lies and Lying
Finley Peter Dunne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 725 votes

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Lies and Lying
Mark Twain

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 647 votes

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

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 721 votes

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Lies and Lying
Lord Byron

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 759 votes

Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.
Lies and Lying
Source Unknown

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 723 votes

Don't lie if you don't have to.
Lies and Lying
Leo Szilard

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 546 votes

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
Lies and Lying
I. F. Stone

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 696 votes

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Lies and Lying
Aleister Crowley

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 736 votes

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Lies and Lying
William Mcilvanney

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 676 votes

Great talker, great liar.
Lies and Lying
French Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1048 votes

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Lies and Lying
Graham Greene

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 834 votes

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Lies and Lying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 651 votes

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
Lies and Lying
Joseph Addison

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 895 votes

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Lies and Lying
Jean Cocteau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 763 votes

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

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 723 votes

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Lies and Lying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 661 votes

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

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 669 votes

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Lies and Lying
Larry Speakes

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 644 votes

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Lies and Lying
Angela Thirkell

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 656 votes

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Lies and Lying
A. A. Milne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 668 votes

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Lies and Lying
Logan Pearsall Smith

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 582 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun