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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