Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mencken, H. L.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

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

Zohar

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

Steiner, George

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

Speakes, Larry

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Aristotle

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Homer

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Watt, James

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Epictetus

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Thirkell, Angela

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Twain, Mark

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

Greene, Graham

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

Greene, Graham

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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.