Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Feather, William

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

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Steiner, George

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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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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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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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.

21.

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

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

Szilard, Leo

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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

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Greene, Graham

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Talmud, The

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

Byron, Lord

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen