Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Thirkell, Angela

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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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

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

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

Simon, Paul

5.

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

6.

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

Phaedrus

7.

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

8.

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

Voltaire

9.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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.

11.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

12.

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

South, Bishop Robert

13.

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

Greene, Graham

14.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

15.

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

16.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

17.

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

Thirkell, Angela

18.

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

Merlin

19.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Canetti, Elias

21.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

26.

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

Speakes, Larry

27.

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

Mcilvanney, William

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Crowley, Aleister

35.

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Zohar

37.

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

38.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

42.

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

43.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

44.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

46.

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

47.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

48.

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.

49.

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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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.