Lies and Lying Quotes
81 quotations about Lies and Lying
Lying rides upon debt's back.
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
The lie is a condition of life.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
They say is often a great liar.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.