Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

They say is often a great liar.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

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

Homer

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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.

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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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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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

Merlin

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

Feather, William

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Aristotle

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

Greene, Graham

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Steiner, George

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Voltaire

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

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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Epictetus