Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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.

Miller, Henry

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

Phaedrus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Feather, William

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Homer

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Zohar

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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''