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Lies and lying

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
- Antrim, Minna
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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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

2.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Proust, Marcel

3.
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

5.
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Speakes, Larry

6.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Proust, Marcel

7.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
Twain, Mark

9.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

11.
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

12.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James

13.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon, Paul

14.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Syrus, Publilius

15.
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

16.
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.

17.
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

18.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Byron, Lord

19.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus

20.
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
Frost, Robert

21.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham

22.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
Proverb, Arabian

23.
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

24.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Hoffer, Eric

25.
A liar is full of oaths.
Corneille, Pierre

26.
The lie is a condition of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.
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.

29.
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Talmud, The

30.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Twain, Mark

31.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Thatcher, Margaret

32.
When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

33.
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

34.
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.

35.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mencken, H. L.

36.
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Armstrong, Robert

37.
Don't lie if you don't have to.
Szilard, Leo

38.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Crowley, Aleister

39.
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.

40.
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

41.
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

42.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Proverb, Russian

43.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus

44.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Greene, Graham

45.
Great talker, great liar.
Proverb, French

46.
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Twain, Mark

47.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Cicero, Marcus T.

48.
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

49.
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
Zohar

50.
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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