165 Lies Quotes & Sayings To Save Troubled Relationships

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Last Updated on June 13, 2024 by Team Lifelords

Lies Quotes: Top Quotes About Lying And Its Negative Impact on Relationships

“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”

– Alexander Pope

Quotes about Lying

Quotes About Lying in Relationships: Almost every person in this world gives importance to truth and honesty. But there are many occasions in life when you have to lie, whether for yourself or for someone else. However, it is universally accepted that lying to someone is never a good thing. There can be numerous reasons behind telling lies.

But regardless of their age, avoiding punishment is the most frequent reason people tell serious lies. Lies are morally wrong because they corrupt the most important quality of a human being – your ability to make free, rational choices. Every time you tell a lie it contradicts the part of your personality that gives you moral worth.

Apart from that, lies rob others of their freedom to choose rationally. Lying is bad because it diminishes trust between human beings. It breaks your relationships, brings stress, sadness, and troubles in your life, and reduces your value in the eyes of others.

If people generally didn’t tell the truth, life would become very difficult, as nobody could be trusted and nothing you heard or read could be trusted. We have shared some highly inspiring quotes about lying that will help you to understand why should not you speak lies and how it affects your relationships.

All men must acknowledge Lying to be one of the most scandalous sins, that can be committed between man and man; a crime of a deep dye, and of an extensive nature, leading into innumerable sins; for Lying is practiced to deceive, to injure, betray, rob, destroy, and the like; Lying in this sense is the concealing of all other crimes, the sheep’s clothing upon the wolf’s back, the Pharisee’s prayer, the harlot’s blush, the hypocrite’s paint, and Judas’s kiss; in a word, it is mankind’s darling sin, and the Devil’s distinguished characteristic.

– Wellins Calcott

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

– Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

– Josiah Bartlett

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.

– Elena Gorokhova

When someone lies to you, it’s because they do not respect you enough to be honest and they think you are too stupid to know the difference.

– Anonymous

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

– Henry Ward Beecher

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies.

– Michael Ende

For every good reason, there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

– Bo Bennett

One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through.

– John Owen

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

– Khaled Hosseini

When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.

– Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

– John Ruskin

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

– Immanuel Kant

Big or small, lies are lies.

– Anonymous

Inspiring Lying Quotes For Healing And Moving On In Life

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying – to others and to yourself.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

– Pablo Picasso

The man who lies to the world is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

– Ayn Rand

A new study found that most people can’t go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

– Jimmy Fallon

Lying is a sin destructive to society; for there is no trade where there is no trust, and there is no trust where there is no truth.

– Wellins Calcott

Lies and secrets are like cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

– Cassandra Clare

Never try to destroy someone else’s life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth.

– Anonymous

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

– Fredrich Nietzsche

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

– Dorothy Allison

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.

– Rob Thurman

If lying was a job I know someone who would be a Billionaire.

– Anonymous

Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.

– Anonymous

Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies.

– Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer),
Misattributed to James Joyce

Lying is for cowards. Truth takes courage.

– Robert Kiyosaki

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

– Vladimir Lenin

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Lying Relationship Quotes For Men And Women With Images

Lies are a little fortress; inside them, you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies, you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

– William Paul Young

We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

– Tad Williams

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

– Plato

If a woman asks you a question, It’s better to tell her the truth because chances are she’s asking you because she already knows the answer…

– Anonymous

Real men stay faithful. They do not have time to look for other women because they are too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

– John F. Kennedy

I don’t like lies … Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with and triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

– Patricia Briggs

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can’t tell the truth without lying.

– Josh Billings

Don’t disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile on my face and act like nothing’s wrong.

– Scottie Pippen

There are a few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

– Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There’s never such “lying for good”. There’s only “lying for your own good.”

– Anonymous

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

– Theodor W. Adorno

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

– Natalie Portman

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

– Croft M. Pentz

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

– Al David

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

– Scott Westerfeld, Extras

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

– Michael Jackson

Quotes of Lying That Show How Badly Lies Affect Our Life

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

– Thomas Jefferson

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realizing, on the man’s part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

– Jean Jacques Rousseau

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

– Abraham Lincoln

Lies don’t fix things. They don’t even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

– P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

But liars we can never trust, even when they say what is true. And he that does one fault at first and lies to hide it, makes it two.

– Isaac Watts

To me, the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

– William Wordsworth

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

– Lucille Ball

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

– Walter Langer

Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes––never!

– Mikhail Bulgakov

Those who think it permissible to tell a white lie soon grow color–blind.

– Austin O’Malley

Only a lie that wasn’t ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

– Isaac Asimov

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

– Frank Herbert

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

– Al Pacino (Scarface, 1983)

Half a truth is often a great lie.

– Benjamin Franklin

Short Quotes About Lies & Half-truth For You With Pictures

It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they’re dying is it tends to focus on their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they’re willing to die for. What they’re willing to lie for.

– David Shore, (House M.D., Three Stories)

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

– George Denison Prentice

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life’s almost–anagram.

– John Banville

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

– John F. Kennedy

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

– Mira Grant

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

We’re going to have to let the truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

– Beth Moore

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

– Epictetus

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

– Mark Twain

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

– Aeschylus

A half–truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

– Ivan Panin

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

– Adrienne Rich

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

– Honore De Balzac

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

– Thomas Mann

Lies require commitment.

– Veronica Roth, Divergent

Lie Quotes That Tells Why You Should Always Avoid Telling Lies

To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.

– Flora Jessop

It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that’s a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

– Lester Neil Smith

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.

– Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’

– Charles M. Schulz

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

– Ally Carter, Heist Society

Some people have been lying to themselves for so long that they do not know what the truth is anymore.

– Kelley Moran

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

– Adolf Hitler

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

– Pope John Paul II

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

– William James

Numbers don’t lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don’t lie.

– Max Holloway

The truth can be funny but it’s not funny to cover up the truth.

– Ryan Cooper

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

– Arthur Calwell

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

– Baltasar Gracian

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

– Tanith Lee

Sanity is a cozy lie.

– Susan Sontag

Lying Relationship Quotes To Make Your Social Bonds Stronger

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

– Leonardo da Vinci

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

– Laurell K. Hamilton

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

– Henry L. Mencken

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

– Laurell K. Hamilton

A recent study found that people lie more when they are texting. Yeah, especially that one lie: “Sorry, just got your text!”

– Jimmy Fallon

A single lie discovered is enough to create contagious doubt over every other truth expressed.

– Bram Stoker

The truth is messy. It’s raw and uncomfortable. You can’t blame people for preferring lies.

– Holly Black

You are weak when you lie because you are not strong enough to face the truth.

– Anonymous

A lie is like a vizard, that may cover the face, indeed, but can never become it.

– R. South

A lie is like a snowball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

– Martin Luther

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

– Jordan Peterson

A good memory is needed once we have lied.

– Pierre Corneille

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

– Stephen King

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Wonderful Quotes About Lies For Those Who Believe Easily

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

– George Eliot

Lying … is so ill a quality, and the mother of so many ill ones that spawn from it, and take shelter under it, that a child should be brought up in the greatest abhorrence of it imaginable.

– John Locke

My father always told me that what’s wrong with lying is that it’s an admission of weakness. If you’re the strongest, you can afford to tell the truth.

– K. J. Parker (Tom Holt)

Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

– Daniel Quinn

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half-truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

– Washington Allston

Not only did I lie about lying, but I lied about lying about lying. And you’d better believe that’s the truth.

– Jarod Kintz

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

– Tim O’Brien

Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good.

– Sherrilyn Kenyon

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

– Plato

It’s not about saying the right things, it’s about doing the right things.

– Anonymous

A lie would make no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

– Alfred Adler

The naked truth is always better than the best–dressed lie.

– Ann Landers

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

– Susan Eloise Hinton, The Outsiders

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

– Bob Dylan

Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.

– Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

There must be repressed truth even in lies.

– Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.

– Victoria Schwab

Thought-provoking Lying Quotes That Will Make You Think

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

– Lord Chesterfield

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

– Leo Tolstoy

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

– Elias Lyman Magoon

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

– Lou Holtz

A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit.

– Anonymous

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

– Clare Boothe Luce

There are only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.

– Jack Nicholson

The biggest lie I tell myself is ‘I don’t need to write that down, I’ll remember it.’

– Anonymous

Actions prove who someone is, words just prove who they want to be.

– Anthon St. Maarten

There are three types of lies –– lies, damn lies, and statistics.

– Benjamin Disraeli

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.

– James M. Coetzee

The best lies are always at least partially true.

– Laurell K. Hamilton

A half–truth is the most cowardly of lies.

– Mark Twain

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Hidden truths are unspoken lies.

– Anonymous

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Lie Quotes For Relationships Because Social Life Matters

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two–foot pump in a hundred

–foot well. He cannot touch the bottom at all.

– Henry Ward Beecher

Lies hurt no matter if they are coming from a friend or a loved one. When you trust someone with all you have and they break that trust with lies it is like having the wind knocked out of you.

– Anonymous

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

– Franz Kafka

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire, they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.

– Max Brooks

Lie to yourself if you want, but you are not fooling me. Your excuse tells me that you did not really want it.

– Steve Maraboli

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

– Denis Diderot

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

– Winston Churchill

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually, they will believe it.

– Joseph Goebbels (The Goebbels Diaries), Misattributed to Adolf Hitler

I know you are lying but I won’t say anything cause it’s funny to watch you try.

– Anonymous

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand, but it has wings and can fly far and wide.

– William Warburton, Misattributed as Chinese Proverb

Turns out that if you never lie, there’s always someone mad at you.

– Scott Westerfeld (Extras, 2007)

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

Eat your own bullshit. I do not swallow lies.

– Anonymous

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

– Patrick Rothfuss

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Lying is not a good thing in any way. However, sometimes lying is better than telling the truth especially when telling the truth risks causing unnecessary harm but such situations arise only occasionally in life. We hope these quotes about lying will help you to recognize the importance of truth in life. Feel free to share your thoughts on lies quotes in the comment section below.

“If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. But if you lie, it becomes a part of your future.”

– Anonymous