Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Thirkell, Angela

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.

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

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

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

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Canetti, Elias

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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 liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Feather, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Greene, Graham

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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

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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Voltaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Simon, Paul

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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.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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