Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

Montague, C. E.

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

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If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

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With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.