Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

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

Epictetus

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Zohar

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Phaedrus

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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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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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Speakes, Larry

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Haig, Alexander

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Voltaire

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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