Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

The lie is a condition of life.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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.

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

Antrim, Minna

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

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Epictetus

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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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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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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Aristotle

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

Greene, Graham

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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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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Haig, Alexander

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Steiner, George

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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