Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Canetti, Elias

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

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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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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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Merlin

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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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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Szilard, Leo

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Twain, Mark

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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