Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Watt, James

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Merlin

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, Russian

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

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Armstrong, Robert

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Zohar

19.

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

Steiner, George

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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

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Greene, Graham

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

Greene, Graham

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Byron, Lord

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

44.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.