Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Homer

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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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

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

Phaedrus

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

Voltaire

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

Byron, Lord

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Speakes, Larry

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

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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Simon, Paul

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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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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Epictetus

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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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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Haig, Alexander