Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

The lie is a condition of life.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Talmud, The

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Feather, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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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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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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Merlin

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

Thirkell, Angela

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