Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Epictetus

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Greene, Graham

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

10.

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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Steiner, George

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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Aristotle

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

Homer

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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

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Zohar

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Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Feather, William