Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Talmud, The

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

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.

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Greene, Graham

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

Zohar

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Voltaire

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

Haig, Alexander

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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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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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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 and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Epictetus

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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.

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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 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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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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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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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 would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans