Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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''

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

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

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

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Watt, James

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Zohar

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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Aristotle

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Steiner, George

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Epictetus

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

Merlin

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Szilard, Leo

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De