Quotes about Lies

"History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
-Voltaire

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
-Mark Twain

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
-George Orwell

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

"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."
-Aristotle

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Men of ill judgment oft ignore the goodThat lies within their hands, till they have lost it."
-Sophocles

"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable."
-Sophocles

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"True strength lies in gentleness."
-Irish Proverb

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."
-Sallust

"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
-Samuel Butler

"The test of any man lies in action."
-Pindar

"A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world."
-Ariel Sharon

"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
-H. L. Mencken

"A liar should have a good memory."
-Quintilian

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
-Otto von Bismarck

"Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars."
-Bernard M. Baruch

"Debts and lies are generally mixed together."
-Francois Rabelais

"The biggest liar in the world is They Say."
-Douglas Malloch

"Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make."
-Jane Fonda

"There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them."
-Mark Rutherford

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!"
-Sir Walter Scott

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
-Clare Booth Luce

"I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky."
-John Clare

"A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity."
-Baltasar Gracian