Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

They say is often a great liar.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Simon, Paul

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Watt, James

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

Merlin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Frost, Robert

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

Phaedrus

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Homer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Byron, Lord

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Epictetus

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Steiner, George

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If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

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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