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

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

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

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

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

Zohar

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

Talmud, The

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

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

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

Simon, Paul

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Epictetus

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Greene, Graham

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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 liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Feather, William

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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

Aristotle

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Steiner, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Armstrong, Robert

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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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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.