Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Twain, Mark

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Greene, Graham

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

Feather, William

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

Epictetus

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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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It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Szilard, Leo

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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

Canetti, Elias

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

31.

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

Phaedrus

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Greene, Graham

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Steiner, George

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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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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