Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Homer

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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

20.

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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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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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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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Greene, Graham

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

Greene, Graham

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Speakes, Larry

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus