Lying Quotes - Page 2

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Pillars, Moral

  1974 interview, printed in appendix to (The Oak and the Calf, 1975)

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• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Truth, Deceit, Half

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Art, Boys

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liars, Deception, Easier

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286

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• All men are born truthful and die liars.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Liars, Men, Truthful

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Trust, Karma, Betrayal

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4190, e-artnow

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• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Truth, Integrity, Lies In Love

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Real, People, Evil

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  Plato

  Truth, Attitude, Knowing Nothing

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Liars, Mean, Successful

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• A lie cannot live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Liars, Deception, Untruthfulness

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• We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Prayer, Principles

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Lying is done with words and also with silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Truth, Integrity, Liars

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Success, Men

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• I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, Vanity, Views

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.156

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• Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

  Epictetus

  Liars, World, Causes

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• diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Country, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.47, 谷月社

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• Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

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• Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Book, Thinking, Spirituality

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Motivation, Excuse

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Government Lies

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

  Mel Odom

  People, Use, World

  Mel Odom (2007). “The Quest for the Trilogy: A Rover Novel of Three Adventures”, p.872, Macmillan

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• When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

  Thomas Sowell

  Truth, Helping Others, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books

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• For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

  William S. Burroughs

  Desire, Might, Ships

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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