Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Proust, Marcel

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Proverb, Russian

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Greene, Graham

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Greene, Graham

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

Twain, Mark

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Feather, William

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Zohar

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Mcilvanney, William

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Homer

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Steiner, George

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