Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

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

Merlin

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

Zohar

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

Kant, Immanuel

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Canetti, Elias

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Aristotle

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Mailer, Norman

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

Phaedrus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Speakes, Larry

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Feather, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander