Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

South, Bishop Robert

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Steiner, George

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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Feather, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Homer

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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 is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Haig, Alexander

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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

Phaedrus

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Twain, Mark

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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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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Kant, Immanuel