Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Szilard, Leo

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Homer

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

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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.

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Feather, William

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

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

South, Bishop Robert

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.