Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

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

Phaedrus

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Steiner, George

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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''

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

Byron, Lord

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

Aristotle

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Frost, Robert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Merlin

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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

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

Zohar

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Talmud, The

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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

Szilard, Leo

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius