Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Kant, Immanuel

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Watt, James

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

Byron, Lord

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Phaedrus

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

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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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''

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Szilard, Leo

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proust, Marcel

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Zohar

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Talmud, The

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

Feather, William

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

Steiner, George

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Merlin