Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Simon, Paul

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Byron, Lord

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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 middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Szilard, Leo

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

South, Bishop Robert

28.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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 six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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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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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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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

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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.