Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

A liar is full of oaths.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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

Greene, Graham

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Simon, Paul

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Aristotle

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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Proverb, Russian