Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

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''

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 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

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

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

Proverb, Russian

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

10.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Steiner, George

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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

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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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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 lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aristotle

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

24.

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

Feather, William

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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

Zohar

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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.

34.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Belloc, Hilaire

41.

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

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

Homer

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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

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

Simon, Paul

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

Armstrong, Robert

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