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

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

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

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Greene, Graham

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

Steiner, George

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

Canetti, Elias

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Szilard, Leo

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Byron, Lord

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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 increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Greene, Graham

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Twain, Mark

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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.

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Voltaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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