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Lies and lying

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
- Byron, Lord
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.
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

2.
Don't lie if you don't have to.
Szilard, Leo

3.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Dunne, Finley Peter

4.
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

5.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
Frost, Robert

7.
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Steiner, George

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

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

10.
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

11.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Mcilvanney, William

12.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Canetti, Elias

13.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
South, Bishop Robert

14.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Merlin

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

17.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Belloc, Hilaire

19.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Feather, William

20.
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Twain, Mark

21.
Liars need to have good memories.
Sidney, Algernon

22.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Greene, Graham

24.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire

25.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Byron, Lord

27.
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

28.
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Bowen, Elizabeth

29.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Thatcher, Margaret

30.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
France, Anatole

31.
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

32.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham

33.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Soderbergh, Steven

34.
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

35.
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

36.
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

37.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
Twain, Mark

38.
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

39.
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.

40.
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
Kant, Immanuel

41.
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

42.
Great talker, great liar.
Proverb, French

43.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

44.
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.

45.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
Proverb, Arabian

47.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Thirkell, Angela

48.
The lie is a condition of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Evans

50.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Twain, Mark


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