Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Phaedrus

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Greene, Graham

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Watt, James

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Zohar

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

Greene, Graham

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

Epictetus

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

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

Homer

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

Steiner, George

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

Aristotle

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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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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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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

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

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Simon, Paul