Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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

Phaedrus

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

Homer

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Epictetus

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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 lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

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

Steiner, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Merlin

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Feather, William

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

Armstrong, Robert

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.