Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Zohar

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Montague, C. E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Byron, Lord

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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''

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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 entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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

Talmud, The

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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Simon, Paul

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Feather, William

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

26.

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

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Epictetus

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

Haig, Alexander

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Watt, James

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Twain, Mark

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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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

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Phaedrus

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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The lie is a condition of life.