Memorable Famous Quotes About Lies

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"The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Truth exists; only lies are invented."
Georges Braque
"A lie does not consist in the words, but in the intention of the one who speaks."
St. Augustine
"Liars need to have good memories."
Alfred Adler
"The truth may be uncomfortable, but it is never wrong."
Kathy Griffin
"The whole world is a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
Sean O'Casey
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Socrates
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln
"Big lies are best. They need less covering up."
Craig L. Thomas
"Lies can only be intellectual. They cannot be emotional."
Marcel Proust
"A lie can never be fully believed, not even by the liar."
George Bernard Shaw
"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
Stephen King
"We all know that art is not the truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"A lie is a present that is never opened."
Anonymous
"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."
Edward R. Murrow
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second time."
Thomas Jefferson
"Some of us are born to survive, and some of us are born to lie."
Rita Mae Brown
"The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever."
Anonymous
"Lies are sufficient to breed distrust, and distrust is sufficient to breed lies."
Steve Maraboli
"We are all slaves to our words, and our words are often lies."
Edward O. Wilson
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"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Charles Baudelaire
"A lie can only be told only so many times before the truth reveals itself."
Anonymous
"Lies are like scars on your soul. They destroy your courage to imagine."
Jewel
"You can’t fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln
"When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth."
Khaled Hosseini
"Who lies for you will lie against you."
Bosnian Proverb
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
William Shakespeare
"The lies we tell ourselves are the most dangerous lies of all."
Anonymous
"Truth and honesty are as important as the air we breathe."
Anonymous
"Every lie is two lies—the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves."
Robert Brault
"Lies are like a snowball; the further they roll, the bigger they get."
Anonymous
"Lies can give you comfort, but they will never give you the truth."
Anonymous
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
Flannery O'Connor
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"A lie can be a slow, justifiable tactic, but it is never the right one."
Anonymous
"Truth is the foundation of all human communication."
Anonymous
"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."
Benjamin Franklin
"A lie is anything that is not true."
Anonymous
"Truth is powerful and it prevails."
Sojourner Truth
"We are all liars, we all tell lies, we all lie in different ways."
Charles Eames
"A lie is a cowardly thing, and people who lie, they harm themselves."
Henry Rollins
"The worst part about being lied to is knowing that for the other person, it was not a lie at all."
Vladimir Nabokov
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lies break that bond."
Seneca
"People don't believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
Malcolm Gladwell
"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."
Edward R. Murrow
"The whole truth is in the whole lie."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth puts on its boots."
Mark Twain
"Your lies are as good as your truths, and maybe even better."
Chuck Palahniuk
"You can’t give all your love to somebody who lies to you."
Anonymous
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions."
Harold Nicolson
"It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before."
Unknown
"A man is only as good as his word, and his word means nothing without honesty."
Unknown
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!"
Sir Walter Scott
"A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth."
Baroness von Sketch Show
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with falsehoods."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Mark Twain
"Truth is the first casualty of war."
Aeschylus
"The truth may be out there, but the lies are in your head."
Anonymous
"Sometimes the lie is more interesting than the truth."
Richard Bach
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
George Washington
"When you tell a lie, you steal the right to the other person's reality."
Aldous Huxley
"Lies are like children: they should be neither seen nor heard."
Anonymous
"A lie can be very persistent. The truth, however, has an irritating way of coming to the surface."
Anonymous
"Most of us can hide our true selves from others, but we can't hide from ourselves."
Anonymous
"In the end, the truth will triumph over the lies."
Anonymous
"Lying is done with words, and also with silence."
Adrienne Rich
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity."
Baltasar Gracián
"You can't have a lie without a believer."
Anonymous
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."
Eric Hoffer
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Jonathan Swift
"Lies are like scars on your soul. They destroy you."
Emma B. Smith
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"The biggest lie you can tell is your life is not worth living."
Catherine Pulsifer
"An ounce of lie is worth a pound of truth."
Henry David Thoreau
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln
"A half-truth is a whole lie."
Yiddish Proverb
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Mark Twain
"A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future."
Viktor Hugo
"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"One of the most common forms of lying is lying to yourself. You cannot lie to yourself without paying a heavy price."
Oren Harari
"When a man is penalized for honesty, he learns to lie."
Criss Jami
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
James A. Garfield
"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority."
Rick Warren
"The more you lie to yourself, the more you will believe it."
Khalil Gibran
"We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, making excuses."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Deceit is the substance of the world."
Geraldine Jewsbury
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
Henry David Thoreau
"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
Edward R. Murrow
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"Truth fears no trial."
Vernon Howard
"The truth is a powerful thing, and if it’s strong enough, it cannot be destroyed."
Alyson Noel
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
George Bernard Shaw
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson
"There is no such thing as an innocent lie; every lie is born of a drop of bitterness."
Laozi
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