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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Homer

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Watt, James

12.

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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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Montague, C. E.

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

Merlin

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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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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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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Talmud, The

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Voltaire

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

Greene, Graham

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

Steiner, George

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

Greene, Graham

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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Zohar

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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 like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

43.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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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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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Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it.

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Feather, William

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

Thirkell, Angela