Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Phaedrus

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

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Feather, William

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Twain, Mark

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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