Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Watt, James

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Steiner, George

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

Epictetus

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Haig, Alexander

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Szilard, Leo

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Mcilvanney, William

25.

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

Zohar

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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

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

Feather, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

33.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Phaedrus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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''

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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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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By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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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