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

1.

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

Kant, Immanuel

2.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

3.

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.

4.

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

Williams, Tennessee

6.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

7.

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

Voltaire

8.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Mcilvanney, William

13.

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

Phaedrus

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

21.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

24.

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.

25.

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

Merlin

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

South, Bishop Robert

33.

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

34.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

35.

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

Antrim, Minna

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

42.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor