Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

Proust, Marcel

3.

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

4.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

7.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

8.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

12.

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

South, Bishop Robert

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

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

Steiner, George

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Haig, Alexander

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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

Watt, James

22.

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

Armstrong, Robert

23.

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.

24.

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

Speakes, Larry

25.

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

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Canetti, Elias

28.

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

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Frost, Robert

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

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

Feather, William

38.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre