Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Proverb, Russian

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Aristotle

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Voltaire

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Mcilvanney, William

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Greene, Graham

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

Zohar

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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