Quotes on Lying


Is there such a thing as cute quotes and quotations on lying. Here you can find just that. These references and sayings that will make you smile, but also will have wisdom in them about how a lie is never a good thing. One of our favorites was said by Mark Twain, "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

Who lies for you will lie against you. Bosnian Saying

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. Abraham Lincoln

A half truth is a whole lie. Charles Edward Montague

Never lie, cheat or steal, always strike a fair deal. Wanda Hope Carter

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. Alexander Pope

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. Austin O'Malley

"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths." Graham Greene

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Mark Twain

I shall never be deceitful or lie in anyway but strive to show you that you're special everyday. Charlie Mard

O, what a tangled web we weave; When first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scot

The cruelest lies are often told in silence Robert Louis Stevenson

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount. E.H. Chapin

The lie that flatters I abhor the most. William Cowper

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. William Congreve

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; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. Thomas Jefferson

My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is. Tripp Evans

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. Oliver Goldsmith

A good memory is needed once we have lied. Pierre Corneille

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. Stephen King


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