Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

- Soderbergh, Steven

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mencken, H. L.

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Talmud, The

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Aristotle

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

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

Zohar

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Armstrong, Robert

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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

Voltaire

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

Feather, William

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

Homer

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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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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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