Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Mcilvanney, William

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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.

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

Phaedrus

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Crowley, Aleister

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kant, Immanuel

13.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

29.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Aristotle

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

Zohar

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Steiner, George

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

40.

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

Proverb, Russian

41.

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

Proust, Marcel

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They say is often a great liar.