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

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

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

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

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

Haig, Alexander

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

22.

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

Talmud, The

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Zohar

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Aristotle

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

Merlin

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

Watt, James

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

Speakes, Larry

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Epictetus

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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

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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