Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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.

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

Canetti, Elias

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

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

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

Homer

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

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

Epictetus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Steiner, George

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

Zohar

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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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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Greene, Graham

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Aristotle

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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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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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