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

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Byron, Lord

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

Talmud, The

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Merlin

10.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

11.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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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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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Russian

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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