Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Canetti, Elias

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Phaedrus

11.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Speakes, Larry

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

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Voltaire

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

Merlin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

32.

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

33.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Feather, William

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Byron, Lord

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

Thirkell, Angela

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di