Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Watt, James

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

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

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

Homer

10.

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

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Greene, Graham

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

Greene, Graham

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

Twain, Mark

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Speakes, Larry

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Steiner, George

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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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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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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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 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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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