Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

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

Homer

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Aristotle

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

Merlin

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

Voltaire

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Steiner, George

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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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Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it.

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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Proverb, Russian

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Speakes, Larry

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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe