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

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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

Feather, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Merlin

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Epictetus

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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