Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Steiner, George

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Phaedrus

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''

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

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

Merlin

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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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.

Miller, Henry

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Szilard, Leo

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Proust, Marcel

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Speakes, Larry

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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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