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Lies and lying

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
- Watt, James
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.
The lie is a condition of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.
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

3.
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.

4.
Don't lie if you don't have to.
Szilard, Leo

5.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.
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

7.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Proust, Marcel

8.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

9.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James

10.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.
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

12.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Antrim, Minna

13.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.
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''

15.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Mcilvanney, William

16.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean

17.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
South, Bishop Robert

18.
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Armstrong, Robert

19.
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.

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

22.
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

23.
They say is often a great liar.
Proverb

24.
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
Zohar

25.
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

26.
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

27.
When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

28.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus

30.
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

31.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Greene, Graham

33.
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

34.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham

35.
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Bowen, Elizabeth

36.
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

37.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Soderbergh, Steven

38.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Proust, Marcel

39.
A liar is full of oaths.
Corneille, Pierre

40.
I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
Homer

41.
When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

42.
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

43.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Twain, Mark

45.
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

46.
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.
Traven, B.

47.
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

48.
Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

49.
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Steiner, George

50.
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De


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