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

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

Steiner, George

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

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Greene, Graham

10.

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

Armstrong, Robert

11.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

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

Proverb, Russian

15.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

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

Phaedrus

17.

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

Frost, Robert

18.

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

South, Bishop Robert

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

24.

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.

25.

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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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Greene, Graham

28.

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

Merlin

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Homer

33.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

34.

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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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

36.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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.

38.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Feather, William

44.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.