Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Liars need to have good memories.

- Sidney, Algernon

Best Quotes about 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''

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Homer

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Byron, Lord

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Feather, William

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Greene, Graham

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Greene, Graham

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Phaedrus

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

Speakes, Larry

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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