Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Merlin

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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

Williams, Tennessee

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

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

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

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

Voltaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Steiner, George

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Epictetus

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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.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Russian

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Talmud, The

40.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Merlin

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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

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