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

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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

Mcilvanney, William

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Zohar

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Epictetus

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

19.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Homer

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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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

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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 lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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 like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Aristotle

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Greene, Graham

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