Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Talmud, The

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Simon, Paul

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Phaedrus

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Thirkell, Angela

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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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 would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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