Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Zohar

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

Williams, Tennessee

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Merlin

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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Steiner, George

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Homer

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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

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By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

19.

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Epictetus

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

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

Greene, Graham

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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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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.