Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Twain, Mark

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Thirkell, Angela

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Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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.

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole