Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Thatcher, Margaret

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Greene, Graham

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

Zohar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Feather, William

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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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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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

Steiner, George

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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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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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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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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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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

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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.