Lying Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Said (H. H. Munro) (1870-1916) Scottish author
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish novelist, poet
Most lies are quite successful, and human society would be impossible without a great deal of good-natured lying.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
The great mass of people . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hider (1889-1945) German dictator
No man spreads a lie with so good a race as he that believes it.
John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) Scottish writer, physician
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher
Women lie about their age; men about their income.
William Feather (b. 1889) American businessina,
When I make a mistake every one can see it, but not when I lie.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary, emergency.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
William McIlvanney (b. 1936) British novelist
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author
He did not stand shivering upon the brink, he was a thorough paced liar, and plunged at once into the depths of your credulity.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, critic
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
C. E. Montague (1867-1928) British author, journalist
He will lie even when it is in-convenient, the sign of the true artist.
Gore Vidal (b. 1925) American novelist
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
