Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

The lie is a condition of life.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Homer

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

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

Szilard, Leo

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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 is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Zohar

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Frost, Robert

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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 need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Steiner, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Voltaire

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius