Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Steiner, George

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Voltaire

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

Epictetus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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

Byron, Lord

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.

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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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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.

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich