Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

3.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

4.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

8.

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

Merlin

9.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

10.

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

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Williams, Tennessee

14.

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

Phaedrus

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Crowley, Aleister

19.

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

Szilard, Leo

20.

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

Greene, Graham

21.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Feather, William

24.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

25.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Proverb, Russian

32.

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

33.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

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

35.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

36.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

37.

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

Steiner, George

38.

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

Speakes, Larry

39.

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

Armstrong, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

42.

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''

43.

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.

44.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

Canetti, Elias

47.

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