Lies

Proverbs and quotes about lying and lies.

Lies - Pinocchio
Lies – Pinocchio


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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann

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

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Edgar J. Mohn

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracián

Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Leo Tolstoy
Source: Anna Karenina

Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
I don't want to discuss this topic.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
Gore Vidal

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
Thomas Jefferson

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
S.E. Hinton

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth.
Harry Frankfurt

Liars need good memories.

Mirrors don’t lie.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

No one will be above the law.
Donald Trump

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge

The biggest lie I tell myself is ... "I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."
(unknown author)

There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
(unknown author)

Truth has but one color, a lie has many.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.




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