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Lies and lying

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
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Twain, Mark

2.
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

3.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Greene, Graham

4.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire

5.
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

6.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Soderbergh, Steven

7.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.
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

9.
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
Kant, Immanuel

10.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean

11.
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.

12.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Canetti, Elias

13.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Crowley, Aleister

14.
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.

15.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.
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.

17.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Williams, Tennessee

18.
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

19.
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.

20.
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''

21.
A liar is full of oaths.
Corneille, Pierre

22.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Proverb, Russian

23.
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

24.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Thirkell, Angela

25.
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

26.
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

27.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
Twain, Mark

28.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon, Paul

29.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Mcilvanney, William

30.
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Evans

32.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Greene, Graham

33.
Liars are always ready to take oaths.
Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

34.
Don't lie if you don't have to.
Szilard, Leo

35.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Haig, Alexander

36.
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

37.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Antrim, Minna

38.
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

39.
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
Zohar

40.
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Feather, William

42.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Byron, Lord

43.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Thatcher, Margaret

44.
I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
Homer

45.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Proust, Marcel

46.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus

47.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
South, Bishop Robert

48.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Belloc, Hilaire

49.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Twain, Mark

50.
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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