Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

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.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Merlin

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

10.

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.

11.

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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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Epictetus

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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

27.

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

Thirkell, Angela

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

36.

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

37.

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

Steiner, George

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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Crowley, Aleister

48.

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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Voltaire