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Lies and lying
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Best Quotes about Lies and lying
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.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham
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.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon, Paul
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Soderbergh, Steven
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Williams, Tennessee
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
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Proverb, Russian
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
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.
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
Great talker, great liar.
Proverb, French
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
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
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Liars are always ready to take oaths.
Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
Frost, Robert
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Hoffer, Eric
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
Kant, Immanuel
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
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Don't lie if you don't have to.
Szilard, Leo
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Thirkell, Angela
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Merlin
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
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Dunne, Finley Peter
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Speakes, Larry
I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
Homer
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mencken, H. L.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Canetti, Elias
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Twain, Mark
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
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Syrus, Publilius
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
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Crowley, Aleister
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
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
France, Anatole
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Proust, Marcel
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Haig, Alexander
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.
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
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Byron, Lord
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Mcilvanney, William
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Armstrong, Robert
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