Lies Quotes

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.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.

Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.

Being manipulative is dishonest and immature. We often end up having to make up more lies to cover for inconsistencies in our original manipulation. In addition, it sets a terrible example for our children. While it may solve your initial problem, the tangled web that grows from such dishonesty is more trouble than it’s worth.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

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

A liar should have a good memory.

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

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

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

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

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

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.