Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Byron, Lord

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Epictetus

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

15.

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

Proust, Marcel

16.

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

17.

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

Steiner, George

18.

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

19.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

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

21.

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

22.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

23.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

24.

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

Thirkell, Angela

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

29.

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

Armstrong, Robert

30.

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''

31.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

32.

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

Feather, William

33.

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

34.

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

Antrim, Minna

35.

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

36.

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

Proust, Marcel

37.

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

Crowley, Aleister

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

41.

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

Mcilvanney, William

42.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

43.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

45.

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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

49.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

50.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di