Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Zohar

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Homer

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

Greene, Graham

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

Feather, William

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aristotle

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

Merlin

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

Zohar

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Steiner, George

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Voltaire

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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.

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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 like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Talmud, The

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Greene, Graham