Inspirational Quotes on Lying

“A lie cannot live.”

“A liar is one who has no partition between his imagination and his information.”

“Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same.”

“A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.”

“Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.”

“The hell that a lie would keep a man from, is doubtless the very best place for him to go.”

“When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.”

“There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man; for if his worth prove short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.”

“A lie consists in speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving.”

“A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.”

“There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.”

“Think about how much falsehood and deceit there is in the world! How much exaggeration! How many untruths are added to a simple story! How many things are left out, if it does not serve the speaker's interest to tell them! How few there are around us of whom we can say, that we trust their word without question!”

“Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!”

“If a man postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.”

“Thy babbling tongue tells golden tales Of endless treasure; Thy bounty offers easy sales Of lasting pleasure; Thou ask'st the conscience what she ails, And swear'st to ease her: There's none can want where thou supply'st: There's none can give when thou deny'st. Alas! fond world, thou boast'st; false world thou ly'st.”