Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

A liar is full of oaths.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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.

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.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Zohar

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Greene, Graham

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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

Steiner, George

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Haig, Alexander

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Simon, Paul

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Phaedrus

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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