Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Belloc, Hilaire

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Steiner, George

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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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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Zohar

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Voltaire

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Feather, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Twain, Mark

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