Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Epictetus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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

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.

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''

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Merlin

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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

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

Homer

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

Aristotle

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Greene, Graham

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.