Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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.

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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

Twain, Mark

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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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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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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

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