Famous Lies And Lying Quotes

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

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

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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

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

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

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

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

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.

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.

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

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

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

Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

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

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.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

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

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

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

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

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

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

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.

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

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.