Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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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.

2.

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

South, Bishop Robert

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

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

5.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Voltaire

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

Phaedrus

8.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Simon, Paul

15.

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

Szilard, Leo

16.

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

Aristotle

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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

18.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

20.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

22.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

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

Canetti, Elias

24.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

25.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

26.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Feather, William

29.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

30.

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

Homer

31.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

34.

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

35.

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

Crowley, Aleister

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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''

39.

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

Speakes, Larry

40.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Merlin

44.

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

Thirkell, Angela

45.

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

Talmud, The

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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.