Lies Quotes
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