Does anyone know any good quotes that deal with lies or lying? I'm writing a book and want to start the chapters off with quotes so your help is appreciated!
Thanks!
2006-11-04 09:15:28 · 9 answers · asked by mrsabbagh1020 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"o what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive" or even "Tu mens comme tu respire". the last one is a french quote. hope i helped
2006-11-04 09:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
I keep reading between the lies.
Goodman Ace
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lenin (1870 - 1924)
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), (attributed)
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
If you want more try this link :
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/lies.html
2006-11-04 09:41:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts".
Clare Booth Luce US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth".
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)
"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal".
Mark Twain, Advice to Youth US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
2006-11-04 10:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by Sabine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment
in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
2006-11-04 09:47:30 · answer #4 · answered by rjr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
or try http://www.basicjokes.com/dquotes.php?cid=189
2006-11-04 09:24:40 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
2006-11-04 09:28:11 · answer #6 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heres a knew one for the books 'i'd rather get caught masterbating than get tangeled up in a lie' patrick hefner
2006-11-04 09:18:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try going to google.com and type in lying and see what comes up
2006-11-04 09:17:53 · answer #8 · answered by mnkyinabarrel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a search on....... Oh what a tangled web we weave
2006-11-04 09:17:35 · answer #9 · answered by For sure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋