Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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''

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Frost, Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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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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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Greene, Graham

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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Voltaire

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Merlin

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Byron, Lord

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Proust, Marcel