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

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Proust, Marcel

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Armstrong, Robert

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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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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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Feather, William

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

Voltaire

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

Epictetus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Haig, Alexander

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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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

Speakes, Larry

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

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

Beecher, Lyman

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Talmud, The

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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