Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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''

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Byron, Lord

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Voltaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Aristotle

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Merlin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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