Lies Quotes

"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."

Baltasar Gracián

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!"

Sir Walter Scott

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it."

Jonathan Swift

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

"Lying is an accursed vice. We are men, and have no other tie upon one another but our word."

Michel de Montaigne

"Truth exists; only lies are invented."

Georges Braque

"No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's reality, and be presented there for payment."

Thomas Carlyle

"By a lie, a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man."

Immanuel Kant

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau