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

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Twain, Mark

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

Canetti, Elias

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

13.

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

14.

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Feather, William

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

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Watt, James

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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.

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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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Szilard, Leo

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

42.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Speakes, Larry

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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.

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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