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Lies and lying

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
- Haig, Alexander
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
Kant, Immanuel

2.
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Speakes, Larry

3.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Hoffer, Eric

4.
Liars are always ready to take oaths.
Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

5.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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.

9.
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

10.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Soderbergh, Steven

11.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Williams, Tennessee

13.
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.

14.
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

15.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James

16.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Thirkell, Angela

17.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Cicero, Marcus T.

18.
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.

19.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Syrus, Publilius

20.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Feather, William

21.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Dunne, Finley Peter

22.
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Steiner, George

24.
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Twain, Mark

25.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Merlin

27.
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.
When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

29.
Liars need to have good memories.
Sidney, Algernon

30.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
Proverb, Arabian

31.
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.

32.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Crowley, Aleister

33.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

34.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon, Paul

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

39.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Antrim, Minna

40.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus

42.
A liar is full of oaths.
Corneille, Pierre

43.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
Twain, Mark

44.
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

45.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham

46.
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

47.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Greene, Graham

48.
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

49.
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Bowen, Elizabeth

50.
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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