Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Feather, William

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Williams, Tennessee

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Merlin

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

Voltaire

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Phaedrus

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

Speakes, Larry

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Greene, Graham

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

Haig, Alexander

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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

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Simon, Paul

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

Steiner, George

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Epictetus

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Armstrong, Robert

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Twain, Mark

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich