Lies and Lying Quotes
81 quotations about Lies and Lying
Great talker, great liar.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.
Liars need to have good memories.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Don't lie if you don't have to.
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.
Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.
A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.