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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Simon, Paul

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

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

10.

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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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Zohar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Feather, William

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

28.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Aristotle

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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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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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Speakes, Larry

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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 am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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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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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.