Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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 are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Zohar

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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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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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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Steiner, George

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Epictetus

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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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.

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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

Merlin

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.