Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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

Zohar

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

Voltaire

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

Merlin

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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

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Aristotle

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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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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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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Feather, William

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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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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

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

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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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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.