Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Merlin

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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.

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Epictetus

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

10.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

11.

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

12.

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

Merlin

13.

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

Watt, James

14.

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

Simon, Paul

15.

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Greene, Graham

18.

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

Phaedrus

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Proust, Marcel

22.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Thirkell, Angela

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

27.

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.

28.

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

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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.

36.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

37.

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.

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Williams, Tennessee

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Talmud, The

43.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

49.

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

Szilard, Leo