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

1.

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

Feather, William

2.

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

3.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

4.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

9.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

11.

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

Talmud, The

12.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

14.

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

Haig, Alexander

15.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

16.

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

Steiner, George

17.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

18.

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

Mcilvanney, William

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

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

Williams, Tennessee

22.

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

Szilard, Leo

23.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

24.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

25.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

29.

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''

30.

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

Phaedrus

31.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

South, Bishop Robert

37.

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

Merlin

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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

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

Epictetus

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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

44.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

45.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

46.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

47.

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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