Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Merlin

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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''

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Voltaire

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Steiner, George

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

Zohar

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Feather, William

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