Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

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

Zohar

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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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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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

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

Greene, Graham

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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

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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