Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

A liar is full of oaths.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Zohar

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Watt, James

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Voltaire

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

Feather, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Speakes, Larry

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Greene, Graham

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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.