Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Haig, Alexander

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Aristotle

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Zohar

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

Phaedrus

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire