Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

The lie is a condition of life.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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.

2.

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.

3.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

4.

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

Simon, Paul

5.

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

Crowley, Aleister

6.

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

7.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

14.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

15.

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.

16.

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

Watt, James

17.

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

Greene, Graham

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

25.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

27.

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.

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

31.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Speakes, Larry

33.

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

South, Bishop Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

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

Szilard, Leo

37.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

38.

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

Canetti, Elias

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Feather, William

43.

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

44.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.