Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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.

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

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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Mcilvanney, William

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Epictetus

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

Armstrong, Robert

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Byron, Lord

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

Homer

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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

33.

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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Steiner, George

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Twain, Mark

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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