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Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

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

Frost, Robert

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aristotle

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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''

10.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

13.

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Kant, Immanuel

15.

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

16.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

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

Mcilvanney, William

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

21.

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

Crowley, Aleister

22.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

23.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

24.

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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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

26.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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.

29.

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

South, Bishop Robert

31.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

32.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

33.

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

Proverb, Russian

34.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Haig, Alexander

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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

39.

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

Zohar

40.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

41.

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

Simon, Paul

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

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

Greene, Graham

44.

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

Armstrong, Robert

45.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

46.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

48.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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