Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Liars need to have good memories.

- Sidney, Algernon

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

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

Twain, Mark

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Kant, Immanuel

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

13.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

14.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

17.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Frost, Robert

21.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Merlin

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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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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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Epictetus

30.

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

South, Bishop Robert

31.

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

Simon, Paul

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

34.

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

Proust, Marcel

35.

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

36.

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

Haig, Alexander

37.

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

38.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Greene, Graham

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

48.

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

Canetti, Elias

49.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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