Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

A liar is full of oaths.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Watt, James

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

Armstrong, Robert

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Thirkell, Angela

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

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

Feather, William

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

Zohar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Epictetus

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

Steiner, George

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Voltaire

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

Greene, Graham

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Twain, Mark

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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