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

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Steiner, George

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Voltaire

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

Greene, Graham

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Homer

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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 liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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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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

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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 is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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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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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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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Merlin

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