Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Antrim, Minna

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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

Phaedrus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Kant, Immanuel

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Szilard, Leo

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.

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Armstrong, Robert

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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

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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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Twain, Mark

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Epictetus

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

Thirkell, Angela

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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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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole