Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Steiner, George

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

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.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

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

Homer

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.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Aristotle

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

Watt, James

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

33.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Zohar

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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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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

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon