Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Twain, Mark

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

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Zohar

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Phaedrus

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

12.

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Speakes, Larry

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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Greene, Graham

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Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

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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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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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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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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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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Voltaire

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Merlin

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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

Kant, Immanuel

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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

39.

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

40.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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?

Crisp, Quentin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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Liars need to have good memories.