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Lies and lying

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
Lies and lying Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.
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

2.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire

3.
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
Frost, Robert

4.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Merlin

6.
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

7.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

8.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus

9.
Great talker, great liar.
Proverb, French

10.
Don't lie if you don't have to.
Szilard, Leo

11.
It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

12.
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Bowen, Elizabeth

13.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Twain, Mark

14.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Haig, Alexander

15.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon, Paul

16.
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

17.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean

18.
The lie is a condition of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Thirkell, Angela

20.
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Twain, Mark

21.
Liars need to have good memories.
Sidney, Algernon

22.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mencken, H. L.

23.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Belloc, Hilaire

24.
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

25.
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

26.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Talmud, The

28.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Canetti, Elias

29.
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

30.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Crowley, Aleister

31.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Greene, Graham

32.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Proust, Marcel

33.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.

34.
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Bernanos, Georges

35.
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

36.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James

38.
I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.
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

40.
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.

41.
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

42.
When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

43.
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
Zohar

44.
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

45.
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

46.
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Twain, Mark

47.
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

48.
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Armstrong, Robert

49.
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

50.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
Proverb, Arabian


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