Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Merlin

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''

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Phaedrus

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Thirkell, Angela

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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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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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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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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

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

Zohar

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

Homer

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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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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