Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Frost, Robert

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Zohar

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

Watt, James

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Feather, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Szilard, Leo