Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Aristotle

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Mencken, H. L.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Russian

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Zohar

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Twain, Mark

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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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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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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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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Steiner, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.