Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Russian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Greene, Graham

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Feather, William

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Merlin

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Zohar

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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 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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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.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Aristotle

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Homer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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