Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Simon, Paul

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

Greene, Graham

15.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

16.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Merlin

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

Aristotle

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.