Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

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

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.

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Proverb, Russian

10.

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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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Voltaire

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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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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 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''

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Zohar

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Steiner, George

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Greene, Graham

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

Greene, Graham

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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