Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Mcilvanney, William

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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.

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.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Merlin

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Aristotle

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

Feather, William

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The lie is a condition of life.

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

Steiner, George

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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

Talmud, The

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

Zohar

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric