Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Steiner, George

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.

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

10.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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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

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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 a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Greene, Graham

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Byron, Lord

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

Zohar

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

Merlin

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Speakes, Larry

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Watt, James

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

Thirkell, Angela

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.