Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Merlin

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Feather, William

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

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Simon, Paul

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Watt, James

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

Proverb, Russian

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Epictetus

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Steiner, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Zohar

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

Homer

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Aristotle

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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