Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Phaedrus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Zohar

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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

10.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

11.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

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

Speakes, Larry

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

14.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Greene, Graham

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

Haig, Alexander

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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

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Steiner, George

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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

32.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

33.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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

Feather, William

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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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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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

Epictetus

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