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

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

Talmud, The

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

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

12.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Steiner, George

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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

Zohar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Feather, William

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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Speakes, Larry

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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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.

36.

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

Szilard, Leo

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean