Lies Quotes
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“LIE” means to not say something truthfully. This word carries a lot of impetus with itself as it is the true measure of whether a certain feel is genuine or not. Lie is typically the opposite of truth i.e. trustworthiness of a particular being. A lie can be told to anyone actually but not to the people close to you and not about those things you are actually profound of. The habit of telling lies affects your public image a lot and moreover it tells to what extent you are believable.
Lie Quotes are the typical examples of these characteristics of a person. These quotes describe the actual attitude of a person and tell about his genuineness. Lie quotes are the feelings of those people who have faced the deceit from the people really close to them, may be friends, family, or spouse. |
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Martha Gellhorn
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Steven Soderbergh
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.
B. Traven
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
Author Unknown
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.
James Watt
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
Zohar
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Booth Luce
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
Ashleigh Brilliant
He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
Arabian Proverb
Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.
Senegalese Proverb
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lenin
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.
Billy Boy Franklin
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Mark Twain
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Saki
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
Latin Proverb
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Alexander Haig
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian
Liars need to have good memories.
Algernon Sidney
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