Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Feather, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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 are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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

30.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Voltaire

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Merlin

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Greene, Graham

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

Epictetus

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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