Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Phaedrus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Williams, Tennessee

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Feather, William

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Zohar

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Epictetus

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

Aristotle

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Simon, Paul

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Merlin

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