Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Homer

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

Simon, Paul

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

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.

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

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Watt, James

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Mencken, H. L.

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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 is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Feather, William

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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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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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

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Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

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

Zohar

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