Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

- Evans

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frost, Robert

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

Homer

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

Talmud, The

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Szilard, Leo

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

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Feather, William

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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 an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Epictetus

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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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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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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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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.