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

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Phaedrus

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Feather, William

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Speakes, Larry

12.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

14.

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

16.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

17.

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''

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

20.

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

Greene, Graham

21.

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

22.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

23.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

24.

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

Zohar

25.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

Szilard, Leo

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

32.

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

33.

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

Thirkell, Angela

34.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Simon, Paul

38.

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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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

40.

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

Kant, Immanuel

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Homer

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

46.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

47.

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

Proust, Marcel

48.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aristotle

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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