The 100 most famous phrases about lies
Many claim that lies can destroy a person's world and the truth is that lies have such a negative connotation that they seriously affect the image of a person, reaching the point of distrusting everything he says and always having him tested to avoid another deception of the part of him.
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Great reflections on the lie
So what happens to white lies? It is almost inevitable to lie, because we must adapt to situations, but we must be careful with what we say and how much we modify reality. To make you think about this, we bring 100 phrases about lies.
1. The lies are in the mind, but the truth is in the soul. (Sofia Reyes)
We create lies with a purpose.
2. In time, a painful truth is better than a useful lie. (Thomas Mann)
Lies take time to overcome.
3. Not that you lied to me, that I can no longer believe you, that terrifies me. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
When you lie once, you lose the trust of others.
4. The most common lie is one with which a man deceives himself. Cheating others is a relatively vain flaw. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
When we deceive ourselves, we limit ourselves.
5. Given the reiterated, and in the absence of anyone who contradicts, everyone believes, which does not mean knowing. (Fernando de la Rúa)
Ignorance thrives when it is not corrected.
6. The greatest friend of truth is time; his most bitter enemy, prejudice; and his constant companion, humility. (Charles Caleb Colton)
The truth comes out sooner or later.
7. That there is no such clever lie that is not known. (Felix Lope de Vega)
All lies are discovered.
8. The liar's punishment is not to be believed even when telling the truth. (Aristotle)
An accurate sentence that awaits the liars.
9. You cannot live with the truth in a world of liars. (Michael Westen)
When you fool yourself for so long, the truth is dismissed.
10. The hunter and the liar are lost if they are not memorable.
To lie, you have to have a good memory.
11. It is better to be defeated by telling the truth than to triumph by a lie. (Mahatma Gandhi)
People's hearts are honestly won.
12. The lie is a sad substitute for the truth, but it is the only one that has been discovered so far. (Anonymous)
Lies never go that far.
13. The secret is the mother of all lies. (Toba Beta)
A lie begins in order not to reveal a secret.
14. Do not believe anything of what they tell you, and of what you see, only half. (Popular saying)
Be careful around you. It may be a hoax.
15. He who tells a lie does not know what task he has assumed, because he will be obliged to invent twenty more to maintain the certainty of this first. (Alexander Pope)
Lies are like a snowball.
16. Before it catches the liar to the lame. (Spanish saying)
A little oversight is enough to discover a sham.
17. With a lie he usually goes very far, but without hope of returning. (Jewish proverb)
You will not have the support of those who once did and disappointed you.
18. Slander boldly: something will always remain. (Francis Bacon)
Only those liars who are agile thrive.
19. Lies run short races, but truth runs marathons. (Michael Jackson)
We appreciate the truth more, even if it bothers.
20. Of all the ways to fool others, the serious pose is the one that wreaks the most havoc. (Santiago Rusiñol)
There is nothing more painful than being lied to by someone you trust.
21. Most men, falsifying the truth, prefer to appear to be. (Aeschylus)
Many deceive to pretend something they are not.
22. To whom you tell your secret, you make your owner. (Popular saying)
Not everyone you know is worthy of knowing your secrets.
23. Liar without memory, he loses the thread of the story.
Disagreements in the stories reveal a liar.
24. Lie once and all your truths will turn into doubts.
When the truth turns into mistrust.
25. A good liar knows that the most effective lie is always a truth from which a key piece has been removed. (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
Lying or hiding information?
26. The lie has many facets: reluctance, lobbying, backbiting... But it is always the weapon of cowards. (Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer)
We lie to avoid facing responsibilities.
27. Tell the truth from time to time so that they believe you when you lie. (Jules Renard)
The truth must never go away.
28. A lie is like a snowball; the more it rolls, the bigger it gets. (Martin Luther)
And he ends up crashing in our faces.
29. With the bait of a lie a real carp is caught. (William Shakespeare)
A useful way to use a lie.
30. A lie that makes you happy is worth more than a truth that makes your life bitter. (Ricardo Arjona)
Unfortunately, sometimes we prefer to be lied to to avoid hurting ourselves.
31. The evil of slander is similar to an oil stain: it always leaves traces. (Napoleon I Bonaparte)
It leaves a mark on you as a perpetrator and as a victim.
32. The truth is corrupted by both lies and silence. (Cicero)
Silence is a way to assure a lie.
33. There is nothing you hate more than the stench of lies.
Nobody wants to be lied to.
34. If you tell the truth, you won't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain)
He who tells the truth, he must never fear.
35. It is wise not to fully trust those who have deceived us once. (Descartes)
If they can cheat once, also a second.
36. The truth exists, only the lie is invented. (George Braque)
The lie is a creation of people.
37. I'd rather be hurt by the truth than be comforted by a lie. (Khaled Hosseini)
It may hurt, but the truth is necessary.
38. When you have made a mistake, do not lie to deny or mitigate it. Lying is a clumsy weakness. Accept that you were wrong; there is magnanimity in it. (Silvio Pellico)
When we admit our mistakes, we can fix them.
39. The devil is not the prince of matter, the devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without a smile, the truth never touched by doubt. (Umberto Eco)
The truth and the devil in it.
40. The lies of the heart start from the face. (Francisco de Quevedo and Villegas)
If you don't want to be discovered, you must have an excellent performance.
41. Without lies humanity would die of despair and boredom. (Anatole France)
Are lies necessary?
42. Don't lie, said the liar.
Liars are sensitive to lies.
43. Don't lie to me unless you are absolutely sure that I will never find the truth.
You must know how to lie correctly.
44. There is no lie worse than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. (William James)
Misunderstandings also turn into lies.
45. A lie has the power to cloud a thousand truths. (Al David)
Cheat once and your entire credibility will suffer.
46. Your truth will increase as you know how to listen to the truth of others. (Martin Luther King)
It's not just about talking, it's about listening as well.
47. The cruelest lies are told in silence. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
When you underestimate what you do, you harm your colleagues.
48. He who stands as judge of truth and knowledge is discouraged by the laughter of the gods. (Albert Einstein)
Those who claim to have the absolute truth become arrogant.
49. There are circumstances in which a lie is the holiest of duties. (Joseph Ernest Renan)
The so-called 'white lies'.
50. A good lie is not bad when we defend a good truth with it. (Jacinto Benavente)
Lies must be used to find the truth.
51. Do not lie to those who trust you, do not trust those who decide to lie to you.
If you don't want to be lied to, don't lie.
52. The man who does not fear the truths, has nothing to fear lies. (Thomas Jefferson)
If you know the truth, you have nothing to worry about.
53. Every person, when there is war in the air, learns to live with a new element: lies. (Jean Giradoux)
Wars have been maintained thanks to lies.
54. A lie can travel the world before the truth has its boots on. (Terry Pratchett)
The lies spread quickly.
55. A half empty glass of wine is also a half full, but a half lie is by no means a half truth. (Jean Cocteau)
When we decide to lie, we sentence the truth.
56. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. (Lillian Hellman)
It is not what is said, but how it is said.
57. Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who have found it. (André Gide)
There are those who say they know everything, being ignorant.
58. Experience makes us know that everything that is incredible is not false. (Jean-François Paul de Gondi)
The things achieved by ourselves are our truth.
59. And it is that in this treacherous world, there is no truth or lie: everything is according to the glass you look at. (Ramón de Campoamor)
The truth for some is the lie for others.
60. A lie may seem like the solution to get out of the present, but it has no future.
The future is always affected by your words.
61. Lying is the simplest form of self defense. (Susan Sontag)
We lie to avoid being hurt.
62. A lie repeated a thousand times becomes a truth. (Joseph Goebbels)
Lie to yourself so many times until you end up believing.
63. A lie is like a cat: it must be stopped before it walks out the door or it will be really very difficult to catch. (Charles M. Blow)
A lie can escalate out of control.
64. You never lie more than after a hunt, during a war, and before elections. (Otto Von Bismarck)
Situations where deception abounds.
65. Most of them pray with the same lips they use to lie. (José Ingenieros)
Moralists are not always honest.
66. Stay away from contempt and admiration, as both go hand in hand, alternating. Get close to sincerity, even if it hurts. (Melita Ruiz)
Flattery can be lies.
67. The attention not to cheat never exposes us very often to be deceived. (François de la Rochefoucauld)
If you don't lie, they won't lie to you.
68. It is that the truth cannot be exaggerated. In truth there can be no nuances. In the semi-truth or in the lie, many. (Pío Baroja)
The clearer, the more accurate are your words.
69. It costs nothing to tell the truth, however, the lie can cost you dearly.
The truth can open many doors for you.
70. You will be able to fool everyone for some time; you can always fool someone; but you can't always fool everyone. (Abraham Lincoln)
Someone will end up discovering your deception.
71. There is no greater lie than the truth misunderstood. (William James)
Misunderstandings can be expensive.
72. Lies and stories, hundreds are born from one. (Spanish saying)
The lies are distorted.
73. What is in the background to act, but to lie? And what is to act well, if not to lie convincing? (Sir Laurence Olivier)
Lies can be everywhere.
74. He who receives what he cannot pay is deceiving. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
Take only what you can handle.
74. It is dangerous to begin with denials, and fatal to end with them. (Thomas Carlyle)
What starts wrong, finish wrong.
75. A lie wouldn't make any sense unless we felt the truth as dangerous. (Alfred Adler)
We tend to fear hearing the truth.
76. Did you say half true? They will say you lie twice if you tell the other half. (Antonio Machado)
It doesn't matter what I say next if the first was not true.
77. The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. (Ann Landers)
It may be tempting, but in no time it will break.
78. Nothing deceives us more than our own judgment. (Leonardo da Vinci)
The lies depend on how we see the world.
79. The liar is always lavish in oaths. (Pierre Corneille)
A liar will do anything to make you believe him.
80. In the mouth of the liar, the truth becomes doubtful. (Spanish saying)
Be careful with those who have already lied.
81. Those who love each other only with their hearts speak to each other. (Francisco de Quevedo)
If you love someone, you will not lie to them.
82. Slander always takes its best. (Menander)
Slander is the result of envy.
83. Your lies don't fool me, they fool yourself.
From so many times that you lie, will you be able to know what the truth is?
84. When you lie, you rob the other of the right to the truth. (Khaled Hosseini)
If you hide something, a third party gets hurt.
85. Only a lie that is not ashamed of itself can be successful. (Isaac Asimov)
Why lie when you can tell the truth?
86. Living a lie will reduce you to being a lie. (Ashly Lorenzana)
Everything in your life becomes a sham.
87. Neither the usefulness of lying is solid, nor is the evil of truth damaging for long. (Juan Luis Vives)
There is no use hiding a truth.
88. Cheating a man is nothing, but the woman who manages to cheat on another woman, indeed she must have excellent dispositions. (John Gay)
You can get hurt if you lie to the wrong person.
89. It is surprising how easily a lie is assumed to be true when it has always been imposed. (Fernando Trujillo Sanz)
The right things are not always right.
90. Journalism is the most complex fabric of lies ever invented. (Kurt Tucholsky)
Don't believe everything that is on the news.
91. The big difference between a cat and a liar is that the cat has only nine lives. (Mark Twain)
Sooner or later, everything is discovered.
92. A lie may be less of a lie than a well-chosen truth. (Jean Rostand)
The intention after saying something can be deadly.
93. The lie wins tricks, but the truth wins the game. (Socrates)
Expect nothing more from the present, if you decide to tell a lie.
94. There are three kinds of lies: The lie, the damn lie, and the statistics. (Mark Twain)
Ways in which lies are presented.
95. The worst thing about a bad situation is that it forces you to tell lies. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
There are times when it is inevitable not to lie.
96. A hypocrite is a patient in the double sense of the word: he calculates victory and suffers torture. (Victor Hugo)
Hypocritical people have a double face.
97. All men are born sincere and die liars. (Marquis De Vauvenargues)
Cheating is something you learn.
98. I am as firmly convinced that religions are harmful as I am that they are false. (Bertrand Russell)
Religious fanaticisms destroy people.
99. Every major lie needs a circumstantial detail to be believed. (Prosper Mérimée)
In a lie, you have to calculate every word.
100. I'd rather draw than speak. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. (Le Corbusier)
The actions do not give rise to doubts.
