Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Proverb, Russian

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Zohar

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

South, Bishop Robert

22.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Haig, Alexander

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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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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Greene, Graham

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