Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Greene, Graham

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Epictetus

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

Feather, William

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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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Szilard, Leo

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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.

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Merlin

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Byron, Lord

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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Steiner, George

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon