Lies Quotes
A lie never lives to be old.~ Sophocles
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.~ Paula Fox
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.~ Saki
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it’s boots
on.~ James Watt
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.~ Latin Proverb
An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing.~ Russian Proverb
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to
know how to lie well.~ Samuel Butler
Ask no questions and hear no lies.~ Traditional Proverb
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.~ William Blake
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.~ Lies Quotes
Beware: some liers tell the truth. ~ Arab Proverb
Excuses are always mixed with lies.~ Arabian Proverb
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
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
He who lies for you will lie about you.~ Arabian Proverb
He who predicts the future lies, even if he tells the truth.~ Arabian Proverb
He who tells no lies will not grow up.~ Ugandan Proverb
Hearsay is half lies.~ Dutch Proverb
I’m not smart enough to lie. ~ Ronald Reagan
I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths.~ Danish Proverb
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.~ Zohar
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
I can’t say I haven’t lied but I can say that I lied to tell the truth.~ James Dye
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.Laurence J. Peter
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.~ A. A. Milne
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
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before. ~ Lies Quotes
Lies are accepted once, not twice.~ Islamic Proverb
Lies never pay the toll.~ Croatian Proverb
Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.~ Senegalese
Liars need to have good memories.~ Algernon Sidney
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.~ Steven Soderbergh
Lying is done with words and also with silence.~ Adrienne Rich
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it ~ Adolf Hitler
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.~ Paulo Coelho
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Please don’t lie to me, unless you’re absolutely sure I’ll never find
out the truth.~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.~ Jim Morrison
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.~ Elias Canetti
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.~ Traditional Proverb
The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief. ~ African Proverb
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.~ George Bernard Shaw
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.~ Ernest Hemingway
There are many lies but barely one truth.~ Ukranian Proverb
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.~ Benjamin Disraeli
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.~ Mark Twain
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.~ John Sterling
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.~ Thomas Jefferson
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie ~ Ann Landers
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.~ Eric Hoffer
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.~ William Feather
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.~ Russian Proverb
Women believe the strangest of lies as long as they are wrapped up in praise.~ French Proverb






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