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Lies and lying

Liars are always ready to take oaths.
- Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
Zohar

2.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Proverb, Russian

3.
Great talker, great liar.
Proverb, French

4.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
Proverb, Arabian

5.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Hoffer, Eric

7.
They say is often a great liar.
Proverb

8.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Proust, Marcel

9.
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

10.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Crowley, Aleister

12.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus

13.
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Bowen, Elizabeth

14.
When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

15.
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

16.
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
Kant, Immanuel

17.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
South, Bishop Robert

18.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Syrus, Publilius

19.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Belloc, Hilaire

20.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Mcilvanney, William

21.
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Talmud, The

22.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Williams, Tennessee

23.
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

24.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Soderbergh, Steven

25.
Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

26.
The lie is a condition of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon, Paul

28.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Thatcher, Margaret

29.
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

30.
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.

31.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus

32.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.
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

34.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

35.
I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
Homer

36.
A liar is full of oaths.
Corneille, Pierre

37.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James

38.
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

39.
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

40.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Feather, William

41.
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Speakes, Larry

42.
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Twain, Mark

43.
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

44.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Byron, Lord

45.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mencken, H. L.

46.
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.

47.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Canetti, Elias

48.
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

49.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean

50.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham


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