Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Mcilvanney, William

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aristotle

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Steiner, George

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Byron, Lord

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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Epictetus

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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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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Voltaire

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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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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Homer

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

Mcilvanney, William

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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 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.