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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

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

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Byron, Lord

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

Twain, Mark

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Merlin

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

Haig, 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

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

Phaedrus

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

Speakes, Larry

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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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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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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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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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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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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

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

Voltaire

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Mencken, H. L.