Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Speakes, Larry

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Russian

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

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

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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Feather, William

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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.

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

22.

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

Phaedrus

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Greene, Graham

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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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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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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''