Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

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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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Steiner, George

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

Greene, Graham

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Homer

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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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With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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