Lying Quotes - Page 7

• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Honesty, Two

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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• History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

  Ambrose Bierce

  History, Soldier, Events

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 161

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• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Peace, Truth

  Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.

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• There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

  John Cusack

  People, Nine, Reason

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• With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  I. F. Stone

  Life, Running, Freedom

  American journalist, 1973.

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• The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Believe, Survival

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• For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

  Thomas Hood

  Half, Easy, Seems

  Thomas Hood (1972). “The works of Thomas Hood: Comic and serious, in prose and verse”

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• For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Thinking, Faces

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.391

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• I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Memories, Worst Enemy, Deceit

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.221, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Needs, Blades, Worst

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

  Georges Bernanos

  Mother, War, Sleep

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.154, Da Capo Press

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• I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Ignorant, Mind

  "History of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova, 1997.

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• A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Liars, Telling The Truth, He Lied

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Divinatione, II. 71, p. 485-87, 1922.

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• Liars are always most disposed to swear.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Liars, Lies And Liars, Swear

  Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.197

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heartbreak, Truth, Silence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

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• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Stories, Amusement

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Success, Innocent

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Truth, Honesty, Taken

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• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Reason

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• A lie never lives to be old.

  Sophocles

  Life

  "Acrisius". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 59,

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• I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Truth, Principles

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• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Creativity, Creative, Ego

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• It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

  Norman Douglas

  Wise, Men, Fool

  Norman Douglas (1957). “Siren Land: And Fountains in the Sand”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• A lie is an excuse guarded

  Jonathan Swift

  Excuse, Dare, Guarded

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