Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Frost, Robert

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Feather, William

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Aristotle

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Voltaire

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Merlin

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

Byron, Lord

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

Epictetus

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

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

Phaedrus

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Homer