Quotes On Lying
A Short List of Quotes on Lying
Quotes on lying are as many as you would think. There are probably more quotes on lying than there are quotes on telling the truth. Here are some memorable ones:
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln (attributed)
Lying is done with words and also with silence. - Adrienne Rich
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble. (a combination of Proverbs 12:22 and Psalms 46:1) - Anonymous
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. [Attributed, perhaps incorrectly, by Mark Twain]
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan:
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. -
Demosthenes
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. - George Eliot
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. - John F. Kennedy
A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. - Mark Twain
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said. - Mark Twain
When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain
He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying. - Montaigne
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. - Noam Chomsky
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. - Otto von Bismarck
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. - Sam Rayburn
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott
A few additional quotes on lying are listed below:
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual. - Thomas Jefferson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolfe
To rationalize their lies, people -- and the governments, churches, or terrorist cells they compose -- are apt to regard their private interests and desires as just. - Wendy Kaminer
Quotes on lying are often poetic in their verse, but many tell us what we actually already know.