Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Thirkell, Angela

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Greene, Graham

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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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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Byron, Lord

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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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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Aristotle

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

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

Epictetus

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Frost, Robert

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Feather, William

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

Steiner, George

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

Talmud, The

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

Canetti, Elias

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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 an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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