Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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.

10.

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

Merlin

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Greene, Graham

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

17.

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Phaedrus

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

28.

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

Byron, Lord

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Crowley, Aleister

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Steiner, George

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

Feather, William