Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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.

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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

Phaedrus

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Talmud, The

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Voltaire

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

Thirkell, Angela

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Feather, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich