Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Zohar

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

Homer

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

Canetti, Elias

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

10.

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

Voltaire

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

12.

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

Aristotle

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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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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

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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Speakes, Larry

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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frost, Robert

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Feather, William

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Steiner, George

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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.