51 Inspirational Lies Quotes That Will Open Your Mind
1. “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.” ― Thomas Jefferson
2. “But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
3. “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” ― Al David
4. “Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.” ― Bonnie Eaker Weil
5. “It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.” ― Jerome K. Jerome
6. “Liars are always ready to take oaths.” ― Vittorio Alfieri
7. “Lie until even you believe it – that’s the real secret of lying – Holly Black
8. “The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
9. “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” ― W. Somerset Maugham
10. “I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.” ― Anne Rice
11. “There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.” ― Holly Black
12. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain
13. “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.” ― Criss Jami
14. “Anything is better than lies and deceit! – Leo Tolstoy
15. “Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.” ― Steve Maraboli
16. “Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.” ― Patricia Briggs
17. “No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.” ― Sara Shepard
18. “It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once they got started.” ― Kim Edwards
19. “Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.” ― Epictetus
20. “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” ― Alfred Tennyson
21. “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” ― Adrienne Rich
22. “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” ― Sara Shepard
23. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
24. “Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.” ― Shannon L. Alder
25. “There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.” ― Steve Maraboli
26. “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” ― Bruce Lee
27. “Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.” ― Suzy Kassem
28. “Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.” ― Chuck Klosterman
29. “I don’t degrade anyone, but a liar and a person, who doesn’t keep his or her words, has not any value in my eyes.” ― Ehsan Sehgal
30. “The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.” ― Ambrose Bierce
31. “When your ears hear one thing, but your eyes see another…use your brain.” ― Frank Sonnenberg
32. “The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.” ― John Ruskin
33. “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” ― Rudyard Kipling
34. “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” ― Abraham Lincoln
35. “The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” ― George Bernard Shaw
36. “Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
37. “Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.” ― Victoria Schwab
38. “Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.” ― Sissela Bok
39. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” ― George Washington
40. “When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
41. “A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.” ― Daniel Wallace
42. “He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” ― Charles Peguy
43. “Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.” ― Albert Camus
44. “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” ― George Carlin
45. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” ― Abraham Lincoln
46. “Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don’t.” ― Anonymous
47. “But he that sows lie in the end shall not lack a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
48. “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.” ― Austin O’Malley
49. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
50. “A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon
51. “A good liar must remember his lies.” ― Anonymous
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