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Lies and lying

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
- Crowley, Aleister
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

3.
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.

4.
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

5.
They say is often a great liar.
Proverb

6.
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

7.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Greene, Graham

8.
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.
When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

10.
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Armstrong, Robert

11.
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

12.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.
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

14.
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Twain, Mark

15.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Churchill, Winston

16.
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

17.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon, Paul

18.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
South, Bishop Robert

19.
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

20.
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.

21.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Proverb, Russian

22.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Thirkell, Angela

23.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Antrim, Minna

24.
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
Kant, Immanuel

25.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Canetti, Elias

26.
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Steiner, George

27.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Thatcher, Margaret

28.
I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
Homer

29.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus

30.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham

31.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean

32.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Proust, Marcel

33.
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

34.
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

35.
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

36.
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.

37.
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

38.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Mcilvanney, William

39.
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
Frost, Robert

40.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Soderbergh, Steven

41.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Syrus, Publilius

42.
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

43.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
Twain, Mark

45.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Haig, Alexander

46.
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

47.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Belloc, Hilaire

49.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James

50.
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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