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

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

Voltaire

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Feather, William

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Crowley, Aleister

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

11.

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

Mcilvanney, William

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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

20.

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Phaedrus

24.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

29.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

30.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Zohar

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 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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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

40.

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

South, Bishop Robert

41.

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

Kant, Immanuel

42.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

43.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Watt, James

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Thirkell, Angela