Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Aristotle

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''

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Greene, Graham

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Homer

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Voltaire

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

Merlin

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

Watt, James

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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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.