Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Epictetus

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

Voltaire

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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.

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

Homer

10.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Feather, William

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Byron, Lord

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Steiner, George

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

48.

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

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre