Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Phaedrus

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

11.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

12.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

13.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

14.

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

Armstrong, Robert

15.

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

16.

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Proust, Marcel

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Merlin

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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

21.

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

22.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Steiner, George

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

Crowley, Aleister

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

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

Szilard, Leo

29.

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

Proverb, Russian

31.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

32.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

33.

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.

34.

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

Talmud, The

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Feather, William

40.

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

Voltaire

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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

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Speakes, Larry

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