Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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.

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

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

Aristotle

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Proust, Marcel

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Voltaire

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

Canetti, Elias

10.

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.

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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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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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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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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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

30.

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

Steiner, George

31.

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

Zohar

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

Greene, Graham

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

Frost, Robert

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

South, Bishop Robert

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

45.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Haig, Alexander

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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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It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.