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Lies and lying

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
- Merlin
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.
Liars need to have good memories.
Sidney, Algernon

2.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
Twain, Mark

3.
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Twain, Mark

4.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus

6.
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Feather, William

8.
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

9.
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

10.
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

11.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean

12.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Williams, Tennessee

13.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
France, Anatole

14.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Crowley, Aleister

15.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

17.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Proust, Marcel

18.
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.

19.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mencken, H. L.

20.
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Bowen, Elizabeth

21.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Haig, Alexander

22.
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

23.
A liar is full of oaths.
Corneille, Pierre

24.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon, Paul

25.
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''

26.
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

27.
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Steiner, George

28.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James

30.
The lie is a condition of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.
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

33.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Merlin

34.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Proverb, Russian

35.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
Proverb, Arabian

36.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire

37.
Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

38.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Dunne, Finley Peter

39.
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

40.
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Talmud, The

41.
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

42.
Liars are always ready to take oaths.
Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

43.
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

44.
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

45.
They say is often a great liar.
Proverb

46.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
South, Bishop Robert

48.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Byron, Lord

49.
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

50.
Great talker, great liar.
Proverb, French


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