Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Voltaire

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

South, Bishop Robert

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.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Szilard, Leo

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Zohar

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

Steiner, George

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

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

Twain, Mark

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Epictetus

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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 lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Byron, Lord

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

Greene, Graham

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Aristotle

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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 can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.