Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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

Homer

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Williams, Tennessee

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

10.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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

Zohar

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

Voltaire

16.

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

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

22.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Steiner, George

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Szilard, Leo

31.

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

Epictetus

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Merlin

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

39.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Proverb, Russian

45.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Watt, James

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

Kant, Immanuel