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

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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

2.

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

Aristotle

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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.

4.

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

Mencken, H. L.

5.

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

6.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Williams, Tennessee

9.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Voltaire

14.

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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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.

16.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

17.

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

18.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

19.

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.

20.

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

Speakes, Larry

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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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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

23.

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

24.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

26.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

27.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Twain, Mark

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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

31.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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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.

38.

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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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

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

South, Bishop Robert