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Lies and lying

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

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Aristotle

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Armstrong, Robert

11.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

12.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.

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

14.

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

Watt, James

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

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

Crowley, Aleister

18.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

25.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Merlin

34.

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

37.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

39.

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

Zohar

40.

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

Homer

42.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

44.

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

45.

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

South, Bishop Robert

46.

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

Speakes, Larry

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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

48.

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

Feather, William

49.

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

Greene, Graham

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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