Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Simon, Paul

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

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

South, Bishop Robert

10.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

11.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

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

Zohar

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Greene, Graham

20.

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

Voltaire

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

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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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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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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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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

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Feather, William

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Szilard, Leo

37.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Thirkell, Angela

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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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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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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

44.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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.