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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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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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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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

18.

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

Greene, Graham

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Byron, Lord

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

24.

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

Feather, William

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Haig, Alexander

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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Merlin

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

34.

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

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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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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

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it.

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

46.

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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