Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Greene, Graham

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Simon, Paul

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

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

Watt, James

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De