Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Homer

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Greene, Graham

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.

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

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

Proverb, Russian

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

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

Mencken, H. L.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Phaedrus

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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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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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

29.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Zohar

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Merlin

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

Feather, William

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Simon, Paul

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

Greene, Graham