Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frost, Robert

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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

Homer

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

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

Proust, Marcel

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Steiner, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thirkell, Angela

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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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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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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 would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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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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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Merlin

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

38.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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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

48.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

Beecher, Lyman

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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