Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Greene, Graham

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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

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

Merlin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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''

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.

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

Talmud, The

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Steiner, George

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

Byron, Lord

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Twain, Mark

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

Feather, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Voltaire

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aristotle

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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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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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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