Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

They say is often a great liar.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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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

8.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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.

10.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Speakes, Larry

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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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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Greene, Graham

21.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

22.

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

Byron, Lord

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

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

Aristotle

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

Phaedrus

30.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

35.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Feather, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.