Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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 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

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Watt, James

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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 to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Twain, Mark

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

Merlin

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Voltaire

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Byron, Lord

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Greene, Graham

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Talmud, The

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

Speakes, Larry

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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 may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Feather, William