Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Twain, Mark

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Frost, Robert

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Byron, Lord

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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

11.

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

South, Bishop Robert

22.

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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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Greene, Graham

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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

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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.

38.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

39.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Zohar

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