| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Berätta en lögn för din vän. Håller han den hemlig, då kan du berätta sanningen. | Proverb |
| Det finns lögner, förbannade lögner och statistik. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Det är lättare att tro på en lögn man har hört tusen gånger än att tro på fakta som ingen tidigare hört. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| En lögn borde prövas på ett ställe där den drar till sig hela världens uppmärksamhet. | Ariel Sharon (1928-) |
| En lögn lever inte för att åldras. | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| En lögnare behöver ett bra minne. | French Proverb |
| Gör lögnen stor, gör den enkel, fortsätt berätta den och så småningom kommer de att tro på den. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Gör lögnen stor, gör den enkel, fortsätt säga den, och så småningom kommer de tro på den | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Jag skulle aldrig ljuga. Jag går självmant med i en kampanj för felinformation. | Fox Mulder |
| Ljug inte om du inte måste. | Leo Szilard (1898-1964) |
| Människorna som läser tidningar förtjänar att bli ljugna för. | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| Vi ljuger mest när vi ljuger för oss själva. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity | Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) |
| People tell about two lies a day, or at least that is how many they will admit to. | Bella DePaulo |
| The biggest liar in the world is They Say. | Douglas Malloch |
| A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. | Fred Friendly (1915-1998) |
| Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men | Hasidic Proverb |
| Oh, what lies there are in kisses. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| I long for scenes, where man hath never trod, a place where woman never smiled or wept - there to abide with my creator, God, and sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, untroubling, and untroubled where I lie, the grass below - above, the vaulted sky | John Clare (1793-1864) |
| There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them. | Mark Rutherford (1831-) |
| The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie. | Shapley R. Hunter |
| There are Five kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, Politicians quoting statistics, and Novelists quoting Politicians on Statistics | Stephen K Tagg |
| The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. | Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) |
| If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. | Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) |
| Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone | Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) |
| Debts and lies are generally mixed together | François Rabelais (1490-1553) |
| Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. | Jane Fonda (1937-) |
| The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. | John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) |
| A lie is an excuse guarded | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| A liar is always lavish of oaths. | Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) |
| The test of any man lies in action. | Pindar |
| I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. | Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) |
| The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie | Ann Landers (1918-2002) |
| A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity | Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) |
| The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Lying is done with words and also with silence. | Adrienne Rich (1929-) |
| People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| 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 (1922-2000) |
| When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others. | Andre P. Brink |
| Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| A half-truth is a whole lie | Yiddish Proverb |
| That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Great liars are also great magicians | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Lying rides upon debt's back. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. | Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) |
| If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more. | Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) |
| Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| 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) |
| Loquacity and lying are cousins | German Proverb |
| One witness one liar; more witnesses, all liars | Greek proverb |
| All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| Oh, what lies there are in kisses. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| There are lies, damned lies and statistics. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| You who speak languages, you are such liars. | Orson Scott Card (1951-) |
| Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't? | Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) |
| I'm not smart enough to lie | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Beats all the lies you can invent. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| In delay there lies no plenty. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |