Lies and Lying Quotes

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

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Joseph Addison Vittorio, Conte Di Alfieri Minna Antrim Arabian Proverb Aristotle Robert Armstrong Francis Bacon Hilaire Belloc Elizabeth Bowen Lord Byron Elias Canetti Marcus T. Cicero Jean Cocteau Pierre Corneille Aleister Crowley Fyodor Dostoevsky Norman Douglas Finley Peter Dunne Epictetus Evans