Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

- Soderbergh, Steven

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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.

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Steiner, George

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

Voltaire

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Speakes, Larry

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

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

Merlin

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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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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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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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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Simon, Paul