Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Russian

3.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

4.

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.

5.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

6.

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

Canetti, Elias

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

9.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Williams, Tennessee

11.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

12.

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

13.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

14.

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

Greene, Graham

15.

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

Thirkell, Angela

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

18.

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

Szilard, Leo

19.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

20.

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

Steiner, George

21.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Zohar

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

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

Frost, Robert

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

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

South, Bishop Robert

34.

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

Homer

35.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

36.

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

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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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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

40.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

41.

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

Talmud, The

42.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

Speakes, Larry

45.

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

46.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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.

50.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert