Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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.

4.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Feather, William

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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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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

10.

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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Szilard, Leo

19.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

21.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Greene, Graham

24.

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

Haig, Alexander

25.

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

Thirkell, Angela

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

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

Homer

31.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

37.

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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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

Kant, Immanuel

41.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

42.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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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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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