Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Armstrong, Robert

Best Quotes about 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

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

Kant, Immanuel

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Aristotle

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Talmud, The

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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.

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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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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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

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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.

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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