Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Epictetus

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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.

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

South, Bishop Robert

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Simon, Paul

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Voltaire

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Feather, William

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Aristotle

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

Steiner, George

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

Merlin

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Mcilvanney, William