Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Haig, Alexander

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Merlin

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Phaedrus

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

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

Antrim, Minna

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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

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

Greene, Graham

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

Steiner, George

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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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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Byron, Lord

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

Thirkell, Angela