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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Frost, Robert

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

Simon, Paul

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

Zohar

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.

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

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

Szilard, Leo

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Byron, Lord

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Phaedrus

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Steiner, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

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

Feather, William

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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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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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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Merlin

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

Watt, James

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.